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Law360, San Francisco (July 15, 2020, 6:29 PM EDT) -- A California judge appeared skeptical Wednesday of American Facebook users' arguments that their counterparts in the United Kingdom should be allowed to join U.S. multidistrict litigation over the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal.U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said he didn't understand why California law, as opposed to U.K. law, would apply to questions surrounding whether Facebook's updated user agreement, which includes a forum-selection clause, prohibits U.K. users from bringing claims stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal against Facebook in U.S. courts.Judge Chhabria wondered aloud whether he should deny the Facebook users' motion for leave to amend their complaint on futility... Stay ahead of the curve In the legal profession, information is the key to success. You have to know what’s happening with clients, competitors, practice areas, and industries. Law360 provides the intelligence you need to remain an expert and beat the competition. Access to case data within articles (numbers, filings, courts, nature of suit, and more.) Access to attached documents such as briefs, petitions, complaints, decisions, motions, etc. Create custom alerts for specific article and case topics and so much more! TRY LAW360 FREE FOR SEVEN DAYS

LEE COUNTY The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a post made by its official Facebook account recently — a reply to another Facebook user that used a controversial emoji. The official LCSO Facebook page is accused of replying to a Facebook commenter with an eggplant emoji, which is often used as the meaning for male genitalia or an ethnic slur. The sheriff’s office posted a video about a new initiative. In the comments of the post, a user commented, “Best sheriff in a very long time,” referring to Sheriff Carmine Marceno. Facebook user Amanda Canington replied to that comment, calling the sheriff’s supporter clueless. That prompted a response to the comment by the official LCSO Facebook page, tagging Canington and saying, “Amanda Regnier Canington You’re a ”. “The taxpayers, I’m sure, don’t appreciate it,” said Melina Brady, who grew up in Lee County. Brady saw the post and knew what the eggplant meant in this context, a lewd reference to a male’s body part. “With all the things coming to light about the way women have been treated the past couple years, and especially on top of that is not professional is not okay, would he have said that to a guy?” Brady said. In an interview with The News-Press, Marceno said his office does not have a firm social media policy. Attorney Pam Seay, an FGCU professor of justice studies, told us that’s the first problem. “I found that to be a little troubling,” Seay said. “There needs to be some kind of control as to what is and is not on your official page.” The next problem is what the LCSO account represents. The sheriff’s office is a taxpayer-funded law enforcement agency, so is its Facebook page. “Once you allow the comments on that page, you…

on July 15, 2020 at 4:30 pm Facebook researchers have created an AI model that can distinguish between five voices speaking at the same time on one microphone better than any existing system. The new method could improve audio technology in noisy spaces including hearing aids and voice assistants. Voice in the Crowd The researchers explain their model in a paper titled Voice Separation with an Unknown Number of Multiple Speakers and will present it at the 2020 International Conference on Machine Learning. The scientists taught the AI how to tell different voices apart using a new variant on recurrent neural networks to simulate memory and analyze the audio to determine how many people are speaking before an encoder network organizes the voice appropriately. Models trained on between two and five simultaneous speakers, all with just one microphone. “The ability to separate a single voice from the multiple conversations occurring concurrently forms a challenging perceptual task,” the researchers explain in the paper. “The ability of humans to do so has inspired many computational attempts, with much of the earlier work focusing on multiple microphones and unsupervised learning, e.g., the independent component analysis approach. In this work, we focus on the problem of supervised voice separation from a single microphone, which has seen a great leap in performance following the advent of deep neural networks.” Listen Up Facebook’s researchers point to a couple of different areas where their model could enhance existing audio technology, such as hearing aids. While hearing aids today have advanced beyond simply making sound louder, people using them can still struggle to hear the person they are speaking with when it’s noisy. Isolating different voices and removing extraneous sound would be ideal for people using a hearing aid at a party or when it’s windy. The same…

Members of the Facebook group participate with short reports and longer descriptions of where people are and aren't wearing masks KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A local couple noticed different businesses had different levels of compliance with wearing masks. They would post what they saw on social media but it seemed like that information needed a broader reach.  Three weeks ago they started the Facebook page called Mask Up Knoxville. It has almost 6,000 followers.  Think of it as a heads up on safety. "It's really awkward if you go to a business and you walk in and you realize, oh, no one is wearing masks, no one is taking any precautions, I don't want to be here. So it's better to know ahead of time where we can go," Robin Nichols said.  She is one of the admins for Mask Up Knoxville.  She says posts on the Facebook page must be a first-hand report of a visit to a local business.  "We try to emphasize the positives and the good places to go." The page has a search function and recommendations by category.  "There are some people that have been doing really well, right from the start. I'm very impressed. Publix has been doing very well. Trader Joe's right on top of it. Markham Jewelers also on top of it," she said.  Scrolling through the comments reveals both short reports and long descriptions.  "We've seen some real benefits for Knoxville because we have people coming in from Lenoir City and people coming up from Maryville because they know the conditions of the stores here are going to be good," she said. Reviews also point out stores not following Knox mask rules. Sometimes it's workers, sometimes it's customers, sometimes it's management.  "I was really hopeful that the group would become obsolete after the mandate.…

Ten seconds at the end of a recruitment video for the Alaska State Troopers was too politically charged for YouTube, which has rejected an ad placement by the Department of Public Safety, Must Read Alaska has learned. In the video, the grand landscapes of Alaska are shown, and the values of being close to the communities are woven into the pitch for law enforcement officers to come north and apply to become a member of the storied Alaska State Troopers, if the jobs they’re stuck in in the Lower 48 seem to be losing their luster or if they don’t feel supported by their communities. At the end, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy says a few words — 40 words to be exact: “Hi, I’m Mike Dunleavy, Governor of the Great State of Alaska. I support law enforcement because our public safety depends on it. So if you’re thinking about making a change, think about coming to Alaska we’d love to have you.” This week, the Department of Public Safety was notified that Google/YouTube canceled authorization of pay-per-click advertisement as it was interpreted to be political and potentially an election advertisement because of Dunleavy’s comments supporting law enforcement and encouraging people to apply to the DPS ranks. The ad could only be placed if the governor’s words supporting law enforcement were removed. The advertisement has not been actually deleted from the platform, but the department is not able to pay for mass distribution. While it can still be viewed and shared organically on YouTube, censorship can severely limit the DPS’s ability to reach potential applicants. 

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 KIDZ BOP, the #1 music brand for kids, announced the launch of its brand-new virtual KIDZ BOP Workshop, in partnership with GoGo squeeZ®, the leading brand in healthy portable fruit and yogurt pouches for kids. Following the success of the KIDZ BOP Workshop in 2019, KIDZ BOP has created a free virtual interactive experience for the whole family to enjoy at home. Beginning July 14, the KIDZ BOP Workshop six-part series debuted on the KIDZ BOP YouTube channel, which has 2 million subscribers and 1.5 billion views, with a new video premiering daily at 12 PM EST. The KIDZ BOP Workshop gives fans the opportunity to experience what it’s like to be a KIDZ BOP Kid. Set to fan-favorite KIDZ BOP songs, kids and families will learn dancing, singing, and performance techniques from the official KIDZ BOP tour choreographer and KIDZ BOP official vocal coach, with help from KIDZ BOP Kid, Alana, and former KIDZ BOP Kid, Ashlynn. Beginning July 14, the KIDZ BOP Workshop includes: ●                   Tuesday, July 14: Warm Up ●                   Wednesday, July 15: Beginning & Intermediate Choreography ●                   Thursday, July 16: Vocal Warm Up & Vocal Performance ●                   Friday, July 17: Performance Techniques and Q&A Sasha Junk, President of KIDZ BOP says, “With so many family activities, including vacations and summer camps, on pause this year, we wanted to find a fun way for our fans to interact with KIDZ BOP from home. Last year, we saw great success on the road with the KIDZ BOP Workshop, and we’re happy to bring that experience to kids and families at home on YouTube. We’re excited to partner with GoGo squeeZ to help bring this interactive series to life.” Helene Caillate, Chief Marketing Officer at GoGo squeeZ, says, “Here at GoGo squeeZ, we are so excited to be partnering with KIDZ BOP for the very first time.…

VAN NUYS — A tattoo artist is facing up to four years in state prison for crashing a McLaren luxury sports car in Valley Village, killing YouTube personality Corey La Barrie on his 25th birthday, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Daniel Joseph Silva, now 27, of North Hollywood, pleaded no contest Tuesday to one felony count of gross vehicular manslaughter in connection with the May 10 crash that killed Barrie, who was a passenger in the vehicle, according to Deputy District Attorney Yasmin Fardghassemi. He was initially charged with murder in connection with the crash. Silva was driving the 2020 McLaren 600LT at high speed eastbound on Huston Street when he lost control of the car, which ran off the road and hit a stop sign and tree on the northeast corner of Huston and Carpenter Avenue, police said. Silva suffered non-life-threatening injuries. La Barrie died at a hospital that night of multiple blunt force injuries, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. La Barrie was part of a YouTube duo with Crawford Collins, and the two had more than 100,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel, according to Michael Kraut and Brian Breiter, attorneys representing the La Barrie family. He also had more than 335,000 subscribers on his own YouTube channel and 340,000 Instagram followers. “To lose a loved one is tragic in and of itself, but the devastating details of this case make it almost impossible for Corey’s family to come to terms with,” Breiter said. Silva — who appeared on the tattoo-competition TV show “Ink Master” — has remained behind bars since his arrest May 18, jail records show. He is due back in a Van Nuys courtroom Aug. 13 for sentencing.

The Floyd County Fair is set to go today – with the horse show taking place first. This event, like every event this week, will be closed entirely to the public. Back on June 1st the fair Facebook page posted what many thought was inevitable: “Floyd County Fair Board has made the difficult decision to cancel all ground entertainment and grandstand attractions for the 2020 Floyd County Fair scheduled for July 15-19.” Since all the events would be closed to the public, the fair board pledged to Facebook live each event. https://kchanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/horse-1.mp3 Facebook Live Schedule: Wednesday, July 15th at 10am – Horse Show Thursday, July 16th at 10am – Sheep Show followed by the Meat Goat Show Friday, July 17th at 10am – Poultry Show Friday, July 17th at 1pm – Rabbit Show Saturday, July 18th at 9am – Beef Show Sunday, July 19th at 10am – Bucket/Bottle Calf Show Sunday, July 19 at 4pm – Dog & Pet Show Monday, July 20th at 10am – Swine Show The board says each show will consist of the exhibitor showing their animal and then returning it home after. Each exhibitor will also get two plus-ones to be distributed to family or friends they would like to be there. The board is hoping to reschedule some of the missed events for this upcoming Fall. To watch the events live: https://www.facebook.com/floydcountyfair/?__tn__=%2CdkC-R&eid=ARDwrDccrvBatATp8wuIXenEPQUFNTjq7g01xbz9Zrx8LDtZvWL6xMW50qBj_FFNVoJ1NENazlwvv-I5&hc_ref=ARRZBG6F4EW8b0bJBOh4QtIVQQCvaCKzCLer8bjt9A4_AlrvkFMiPuE94AHRp8TY7Ck