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- 1997 Bermuda Meeting Affirms Principle of Data Release
Government Record · 1997
National Human Genome Research Institute
The 1997 follow-up meeting reaffirmed rapid release of genome sequence data into the public domain without restrictions on use.
- A Look Behind the Screens: Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services
Government Record · 2024
Federal Trade Commission staff
The 6(b) report covers practices during 2019–2020 at nine companies and describes extensive data collection, advertising uses, algorithms, data analytics and AI, and insufficient privacy and…
- A Majority of Teens Have Experienced Some Form of Cyberbullying
Document · 2018
Monica Anderson, Pew Research Center
Pew’s 59% combines six experiences: offensive name-calling, false rumors, unsolicited explicit images, constant monitoring-type questions, physical threats, and nonconsensual sharing of explicit images. The survey covered…
- Achs et al.: Independent Confirmation of Regulatory Compliance of mRNA Vaccines Regarding Residual DNA (2025)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2025
Achs et al.
A 2025 study tested 15 Comirnaty and Spikevax batches, most of them expired, and reported residual DNA within regulatory limits.
- ACLU v. Clapper, No. 14-42-cv
Court Filing · 2015
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
The Second Circuit held the bulk telephone-metadata program exceeded Section 215. It did not issue an injunction at that stage.
- Adverse Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, House Report 117-486
Government Record · 2022
U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
The report reproduces the September 29, 2021 National School Boards Association letter suggesting possible domestic-terrorism or hate-crime classification for malice, violence, and threats.
- Agenda 21 (UN, 1992)
Government Record · 1992
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
The UN's 1992 sustainable development action plan, which it said aimed at preparing the world for the challenges of the next century.
- Alden et al.: Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer BioNTech mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 in Human Liver Cells (2022)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2022
Aldén et al.
A 2022 lab study found the Pfizer vaccine mRNA was reverse transcribed into DNA inside human liver cells in a dish within six hours. The authors…
- Alnylam v. Moderna, Federal Circuit No. 2023-2357 (2025)
Court Filing · 2025
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
The Federal Circuit affirmed that Moderna did not infringe Alnylam's lipid patents under the court's reading of the claims.
- Alnylam v. Pfizer, D. Del. No. 1:22-cv-00336 (docket)
Court Filing · 2025
U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware docket reproduced by PacerMonitor
The court docket in Alnylam's lipid patent case against Pfizer, which ended in a judgment of noninfringement in 2025.
- An Experimental Study of Netflix Use and the Effects of Autoplay on Watching Behaviors
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2025
Brennan Schaffner; Yaretzi Ulloa; Riya Sahni; Jiatong Li; Ava Kim Cohen; Natasha Messier; Lan Gao; Marshini Chetty
Peer-reviewed experiment, 2025: when 76 Netflix users turned off autoplay, they watched about 21 fewer minutes a day and their sessions ran about 17 minutes shorter.
- An Update on Our Plans to Restrict Data Access on Facebook
Document · 2018
Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer, Facebook
Facebook estimated that information on up to 87 million people may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.
- Andrea Matwyshyn: The Internet of Bodies (2019)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019
Andrea M. Matwyshyn
The law review article that defined the Internet of Bodies: a network of human bodies whose integrity and functionality rely at least in part on the…
- Arcturus Therapeutics Form 10-Q, Q3 2024
Corporate Filing · 2024
Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc.
Arcturus reports that its self-amplifying COVID vaccine ARCT-154 (KOSTAIVE) was approved in Japan in 2023 and went on sale there in 2024.
- Assembly Bill 56, Chapter 671, Statutes of 2025: Social Media Warning Law
Government Record · 2025
California Legislature
California enacted black-box warnings for covered users not reasonably determined to be over 17, initially each day and after three hours/hourly thereafter. The official California Attorney…
- Association Between Time Spent Using Social Media and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Among US Youth
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019
Kira E. Riehm et al.
Among 6,595 adolescents, adjusted internalizing-problem relative-risk ratios were 1.60 for more than 3 to 6 hours and 1.78 for more than 6 hours versus no use;…
- Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, 569 U.S. 576 (2013)
Court Filing · 2013
U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled that a naturally occurring DNA segment cannot be patented just because it was isolated, but synthetic cDNA can be.
- Association of Habitual Checking Behaviors on Social Media With Longitudinal Functional Brain Development
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2023
Maria T. Maza et al.
The three-year cohort included 169 sixth- and seventh-grade students from three rural North Carolina schools. Checking was self-reported at wave 1; annual fMRI showed different neural…
- Associations Between Screen-Based Media Use and Brain White Matter Integrity in Preschool-Aged Children
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2020
John S. Hutton et al.
This cross-sectional study involved 47 healthy children aged 3–5. Higher ScreenQ scores were associated with lower measures of white-matter organization and corresponding cognitive measures; some cognitive…
- Attention Spans: Consumer Insights, Microsoft Canada
Document · 2015
Microsoft Canada
The marketing report displays 12 seconds for 2000, 8 seconds for 2013, and 9 seconds for a goldfish, visibly citing “Statistic brain.”
- Auken: Welcome to 2030, I Own Nothing (2016)
Document · 2016
Ida Auken
Ida Auken, World Economic Forum collection, November 2016: a first-person essay imagining a 2030 city where the narrator owns nothing and products are services. It is…
- Bermuda Principles (1996)
Government Record · 1996
U.S. Department of Energy Human Genome Project archives
The 1996 Bermuda Principles required that human genome sequence produced by large publicly funded centers be released quickly and freely into the public domain.
- Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis
Transcript · 2024
U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Senator Hawley cited self-reports of 37% unwanted nudity exposure, 24% unwanted sexual advances, and 17% self-harm content among girls aged 13–15. Zuckerberg disputed Hawley’s broader characterization…
- Bowman v. Monsanto Co., 569 U.S. 278 (2013)
Court Filing · 2013
U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled a farmer could not reproduce Monsanto's patented soybeans by planting and harvesting them without permission.