Watchdogs question trips home Ethics watchdogs question whether official business was scheduled in a way that would allow Zinke to frequently visit his home in Montana.
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But watchdogs say rights violations in China are growing worse.
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Meanwhile, U.S. watchdogs are circling Amazon, Alphabet, Apple and Facebook.
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E.U. regulators are considered the world's leading tech industry watchdogs.
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"The day you leave" official watchdogs and judges will investigate.
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Government watchdogs and ethics experts say the outreach is unusual.
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And it exposed how unprepared bankers, lawmakers and watchdogs were.
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Ethics watchdogs eventually agreed it was probably not a violation.
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But they are watchdogs at heart and love to bark.
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Some companies try to sneak illegal claims past government watchdogs.
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Financial watchdogs warned against Trump's efforts to unshackle America's banks.
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Regulators and watchdogs should be asking about impact and results.
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Walgreens is confident the new deal addresses the watchdogs' concerns.
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Which, say some government watchdogs, is part of the problem.
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Budget watchdogs said the Warren agenda would increase the deficit.
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German Shepherds make excellent watchdogs and are typically reserved with strangers.
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Minoli was swiftly criticized by outside ethics watchdogs for the memo.
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Under the GDPR, complaints are transferred to local data protection watchdogs.
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Police and crime commissioners, as elected watchdogs, also muddy the waters.
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A few former watchdogs and some outspoken academics aren't so sure.
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Consumer watchdogs have been warning about PACE loans for some time.
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Budget watchdogs say spiking levels of debt can inhibit economic growth.
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ALBANY — Housing advocates are frustrated and ethics watchdogs are positively morose.
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Most Americans rightly believed these "consumer watchdogs" were on their side.
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It's a bad day for would-be tech watchdogs and gossips.
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While both parties should support watchdogs, this is not our reality.
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We have the highest rating from the watchdogs that follow foundations.
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The mandate is broad and could conflict with other watchdogs' efforts.
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Watchdogs called them out on social media for misinterpreting the remarks.
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Ethics watchdogs are daily distraught over who is financing these investments.
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The incident raised red flags for security watchdogs at the time.
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That doesn't mean that ethics watchdogs should stop going after Trump.
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However, these are lovable dogs that can serve as excellent watchdogs.
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Normally timid watchdogs acted under enormous pressure from Mr. Sharif's rivals.
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We are the highest rating from the watchdogs that follow foundations.
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Human rights watchdogs have called for an investigation into the killing.
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According ot watchdogs, this increases the chances of a food poisoning outbreak.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union privacy watchdogs will let a new EU-U.
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As watchdogs of financial stability, they want banks to have more capital.
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It's also under joint investigation by Canadian data watchdogs, along with Facebook.
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All of this had led to scrutiny from lawmakers and ethics watchdogs.
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Foreign journalists and watchdogs have not fared well under Mr Jeyenbekov either.
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The job of helping competitors emerge belongs squarely to the antitrust watchdogs.
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Ad watchdogs will soon be able to aggressively monitor questionable advertisers. 2.
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People can serve as watchdogs, activists for truth, and monitors of governance.
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The report prompted an investigation by financial watchdogs in Sweden and Estonia.
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However, consumer watchdogs argue the emphasis on speed risks sacrificing patient safety.
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Government ethics watchdogs have also raised questions about Whitaker's earlier political activity.
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" Government watchdogs have a problem with Kushner's continued ownership of Cadre. "Mr.
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Wells Fargo gives watchdogs another chance to bite rather than just bark.
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As we ring in 2019, we must unmuzzle and unchain the watchdogs.
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N, was pulled on Sunday after it faced objections from antitrust watchdogs.
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In sum, the ratio of bullshit/spin to watchdogs has increased sixfold.
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Both were shut down after criticism from lawmakers and campaign finance watchdogs.
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Among Republicans, there are no watchdogs for this presidency, only lap dogs.
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President Donald Trump's various business interests have raised concerns among ethics watchdogs.
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Watchdogs have noted the program's lax safeguards against illicit sources of money.
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Internet watchdogs say the outage started Sunday night and continued through Monday.
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Ethics watchdogs have said the arrangement does not prevent conflicts of interest.
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Ethics watchdogs worry this could amount to buying access to the president.
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And the Supreme Court contretemps has captured the attention of the civic watchdogs.
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That doesn't make this group of self-appointed watchdogs any less effective, though.
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Now, they're acting like watchdogs for endangered species and assisting with conservation efforts.
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Watchdogs have long claimed that the Barzanis are among those lining their pockets.
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Such convolutions point to deep-seated problems within many of Kenya's new watchdogs.
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Pruitt's actions are being investigated by government watchdogs, Congress, and the White House.
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Conspicuously missing from this budget, however, is any new funding for government watchdogs.
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The EU's insurance watchdog is due to publish similar guidance to national watchdogs.
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The ESRB is comprised of the EU's central banks and main financial watchdogs.
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Investigations by DHS's internal watchdogs were plagued by lengthy delays and insufficient resources.
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The nation has long been an area of concern for human rights watchdogs.
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Liberal watchdogs like Media Matters have regularly drawn critical attention to its claims.
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I'd like to add a few more on behalf of all our watchdogs.
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But the work of these watchdogs is essential to our maintaining good government.
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Independent watchdogs say some of the emails raise serious conflict-of-interest concerns.
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Officials rescinded that deal last month amid questions from lawmakers and government watchdogs.
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The announcement immediately drew scrutiny from privacy experts and privacy watchdogs, including CNIL.
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Such challenges are opening a new front for companies and corporate-responsibility watchdogs.
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Watchdogs and consumers alike report that the quality of Facebook's products has declined.
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That said, watchdogs may yet take a dim view of Disney's plans too.
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International and Korean human rights watchdogs have been raising these concerns for years.
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He also enlisted independent private-sector inspectors general as watchdogs for suspect companies.
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Media watchdogs accused the Roman Catholic Church of looking to stifle press freedom.
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International watchdogs have raised concerns for years about Russia's efforts to quash dissent.
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His opponents or public watchdogs, however, may ask the Supreme Court to intervene.
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Transparency watchdogs and civil liberties groups are criticizing the reported NDAs as unconstitutional.
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The public does not want their safety watchdogs getting too cozy with industry.
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The SPLC is considered one of the nation's most prominent civil rights watchdogs.
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Budget watchdogs decried the attempt to pass the amendment as an empty gesture.
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Religious followers are starting social service organizations to serve as watchdogs against polluters.
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Government watchdogs said the practice of aides staying on indefinitely raised red flags.
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Watchdogs in government have raised concerns about the costs of commercial crew launches.
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It's a move that lets them do more — and leaves some philanthropy watchdogs nervous.
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But local rights groups and watchdogs say the true number of dead is higher.
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In August Facebook reneged on the pledge, which upset various privacy watchdogs in Europe.
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But they're not the only things that might catch the attention of antitrust watchdogs.
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DeepMind's work in Britain is already on the radar of the EU's competition watchdogs.
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This is especially likely in Europe, but even at home watchdogs may get fiercer.
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Now, government watchdogs want to know why the payment wasn't disclosed a year ago.
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The European Union and international watchdogs have repeatedly said Belgrade should improve media freedoms.
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While the EU's bank watchdogs have supported the executive, some bankers have criticized it.
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These allegations have led to investigations from Congress, the White House, and government watchdogs.
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As users, there is still some onus on all of us to be watchdogs.
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Under the regulation watchdogs also have the power to ban companies from processing data.
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The first step to creating these watchdogs is to establish basic goals and principles.
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The woman continued the behavior despite being approached by ethics watchdogs, the OSC said.
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Payday lenders have been a consistent target of Obama administration watchdogs and liberal lawmakers.
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Ultimately, watchdogs can use data to fight fraud, weed out waste, and target abuse.
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But the regulation also gives data watchdogs the power to limit or ban processing.
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But Domenech is right that Zuckerberg's empire still needs vigilant watchdogs and rigorous critiques.
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Securities watchdogs are probing whether Iconix had violated trading laws related to financial reporting.
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NH said Minor's offer, approved by Spanish and Portuguese competition watchdogs, undervalued the company.
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However, watchdogs report that speaking out is becoming more dangerous—and they are right.
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Inspectors general serve as internal watchdogs and are supposed to operate independently of politics.
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But privacy campaigners and some European national data protection watchdogs are not so sure.
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" World leaders and human rights watchdogs condemned Israel for its "disproportionate use of force.
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Watchdogs like AI Now are popping up to identify bias and root it out.
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Reports by government watchdogs have exposed reports of abuse and mistreatment at these facilities.
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Government watchdogs and others have long criticized the territory's history of light regulatory oversight.
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Attacked his own watchdogs, pushing an incorrect story about whistleblower forms being shadily changed.
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It has agreed to pay Fitbit $250 million if the watchdogs halt the sale.
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Removing misinformation from platforms completely also prevents watchdogs from knowing what to look for.
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Watchdogs say that around 1,200 schools, 50 hospitals and 15 universities have been closed.
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J.) and Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who had requested government watchdogs investigate Zinke's calls.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Financial watchdogs in Europe and Asia are investigating Standard Chartered Plc (STAN.
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This is a hallmark of FOIA cherished by journalists, watchdogs, and interested citizens alike.
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Government watchdogs now have more than a half-dozen investigations underway over these allegations.
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A group of consumer watchdogs say that a pair of items made by Genesis Toys records conversations, and the watchdogs alleges that they upload the recordings to Nuance Communications, a voice technology company that has military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies as clients.
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NH Hotels said the offer, approved by Spanish and Portuguese competition watchdogs, undervalued the company.
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Democrats and ethics watchdogs questioned how the membership fee doubled to $200,000 after Trump's election.
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Human rights watchdogs regard it as a "hit list," a charge denied by law enforcers.
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Privacy watchdogs in Canada and British Columbia are combining existing investigations into Facebook and AggregateIQ.
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But double-dipping does rub some public watchdogs — and even elected officials — the wrong way.
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Watchdogs have said the arrangement would not prevent conflicts of interest in the White House.
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In the case of Amazon, scrutiny from European watchdogs looks to be fast dialing up.
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Domestic media advocacy groups and international watchdogs, including Amnesty International, raised concern about the reporters.
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In ride-hailing, the most high-profile part of the portfolio, antitrust watchdogs are stirring.
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I'm calling on our financial watchdogs to scrutinize this closely to ensure users are protected.
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At the moment, the answers are opaque, but secrecy watchdogs like Aftergood are asking anyway.
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Many government watchdogs and library scholars also point to the former librarian, Dr. James Billington.
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But environmental watchdogs say an end to permits does not mean an end to mining.
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Already watchdogs around the world, and especially in Europe, are keeping an eye on Facebook.
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To public-interest watchdogs and much of Silicon Valley, however, it's the stuff of nightmares.
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These films also have an easier time navigating censorship issues with notoriously picky industry watchdogs.
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Government watchdogs and activists have sought greater transparency surrounding visitor logs under the Trump administration.
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In a throwback to the Mao era, China is using students as watchdogs against teachers.
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Watchdogs, however, fumed that precious time had been spent debating mimosas instead of ethics reforms.
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Financial watchdogs from Switzerland and Britain are also looking into Credit Suisse's and VTB's involvement.
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Their objective: dog-proof the jet to accommodate the trio of 150-pound Moscow Watchdogs.
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The acquisition will be submitted to Brazil's antitrust and private healthcare watchdogs later on Friday.
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He was known as one of Wall Street's fiercest watchdogs and a widely respected prosecutor.
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But progressive lawmakers and consumer watchdogs have defended the rule, which is prized by Sen.
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There's also the sort of nonprejudicial whataboutism we value journalists and other watchdogs for practicing.
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These watchdogs ensure that personal opinions regarding politics, causes and candidates do not affect investigations.
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"Businesses will not be able to hide from competitors or regulators or watchdogs," he said.
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But the Russians often seem to be able to outmaneuver the watchdogs and stay online.
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More often, European rules are transposed into each country's law and applied by national watchdogs.
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It vets the local organizations it helps fund and is well-regarded by charity watchdogs.
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Critics — including social-media watchdogs and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — slammed Facebook for the loopholes.
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Now it needs to protect the watchdogs from an administration that wants to starve them.
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So, for a New Year's resolution, let's try harder to be watchdogs, not lap dogs.
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U.S. financial watchdogs have been balancing consumer protection and innovation in the multibillion-dollar market.
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In a throwback to the Mao era, China is deploying students as watchdogs against teachers.
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White House turmoil has slowed the confirmation of Trump appointees at the main US watchdogs.
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That could arm watchdogs with a powerful tool against fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.
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And outside fiscal watchdogs mobilized quickly on Thursday to hammer the GOP's plan as irresponsible.
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Ethics watchdogs are raising red flags over Donald Trump Jr.'s latest real estate promo.
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Given the Ethics Committee's unpromising record, government watchdogs were pleasantly surprised by Mr. Avella's initial enthusiasm.
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Antitrust watchdogs could get tougher with telecoms and cable-TV firms, for example, pushing earnings down.
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Everyone from Barr's ex-husband to media watchdogs were aware of Barr's history of offensive behavior.
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Presumably, privacy advocates and watchdogs will be monitoring what Google does with Streams in future stages.
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Yet it's this data that allows watchdogs like Reveal to do the investigations Facebook seemingly won't.
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But some media watchdogs feel Sessions is being wrongly accused by reporters of joining the chant.
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Members of the Trump administration keep traveling on private jets, and government watchdogs have had it.
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Reporters are having difficulty serving as "watchdogs" when more people don't believe what they are saying.
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Media watchdogs have expressed concern over the potential influence of the Koch brothers on Time Inc.
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Watchdogs upset about the proposal: Possible EPA cuts raised alarm bells among environmental advocates on Monday.
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Trump roiled ethics watchdogs after his election when he refused to fully divest from his businesses.
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But watchdogs warn of rules barring gov't resources (emails, staff time, etc.) for promoting private business.
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That's why, for years, budget watchdogs have urged Congress and CBO to consider the full picture.
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N, chalking up a victory in the onerous struggle to win over watchdogs across the globe.
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Trump roiled ethics watchdogs after his election when he refused to fully divest from his businesses.
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Calling accreditors the "watchdogs that don't bark," the Education Department issued a series of new regulations.
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Sanchez's salary among the highest for charities Charity watchdogs say Sanchez seems to be richly compensated.
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He said budget watchdogs would be hired to cut costs and pay closer attention to spending.
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Many of the probes Pruitt now faces stem directly from inquiries by Democrats to government watchdogs.
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The top Republican in charge of funding for Wall Street watchdogs is retiring from Congress. Rep.
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Repeated investigations by government watchdogs show that funding, not environmental reviews, is the cause of delay.
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After the collapses and bailouts of 22008, watchdogs set out to make the banks more resilient.
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For the sake of consumers, taxpayers and watchdogs, however, a more harmonious approach would be better.
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Breakingviews Global bank watchdogs are acting as a line of defense against an American deregulatory push.
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It helped watchdogs keep an eye out for malfeasance like Cheney's alleged preferential treatment of Halliburton.
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The deal, struck in 2012, took more than three years to get the nod from watchdogs.
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Most of the organizations listed here have been vetted by the watchdogs Charity Navigator or CharityWatch.
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Watchdogs are particularly concerned about Libra's possible use by criminals to launder money and finance terrorism.
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Furthermore, approval requires votes by members of the boards or commissions of most of the watchdogs.
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Organized labor groups, human rights organizations and environmental watchdogs all claim that trade makes things worse.
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Scientists and media watchdogs have long criticized news outlets for failing cover the climate crisis prominently.
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The watchdogs objected to Mr Kerkhoff's plan to merge the steel unit with India's Tata group.
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Conway previously came under scrutiny from government watchdogs for promoting Ivanka Trump's fashion line on air.
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European watchdogs intoned that it would open the region to a flood of genetically modified Frankenfoods.
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Some Democratic lawmakers have asked federal watchdogs to probe the implementation of the opportunity-zone provision.
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For example, certification by industry watchdogs such as Fairmined and Fairtrade has spread in recent years.
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A number of environmental groups and watchdogs have contributed to the lawsuits filed against the EPA.
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These groups are providing critical data and analysis to international watchdogs and parties to formal negotiations.
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The dispute over the need for judicial warrants is not the only thing worrying privacy watchdogs.
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Journalists and the public can act as watchdogs to improve the sustainable management of global fisheries.
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While a federal court has upheld Section 702, privacy watchdogs are still challenging the rule's constitutionality.
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Indeed, the group has an incentive to delegitimise independent voices, such as statistical agencies or budget watchdogs.
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Denham said she would keep pushing the issue along with other privacy watchdogs, notably the Irish authority.
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At the very least, U.S. watchdogs could demand concessions from the telecom firm to allow the merger.
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The House Republican caucus would have faced never-ending ridicule by Democrats, government watchdogs and transparency advocates.
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There has been some pushback in Europe, but so far US watchdogs haven't taken any aggressive action.
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Facebook's plans to merge WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger are drawing the scrutiny of European data watchdogs.
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The watchdogs could have banned Staley and opting for a fine could dent the fledgling SMR's credibility.
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It's going to be interesting to see if privacy watchdogs in Europe will let this concept fly.
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If OLC doesn't withdraw their opinion, then they're saying that agencies can overrule their watchdogs without consequence.
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Environmental watchdogs had fought for years to shift the burden of proof for toxic contamination onto companies.
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Crucially, foreign monitors support local watchdogs who do most of the work and face the greatest risks.
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Transparency International Ukraine and other watchdogs, which criticised the system when it was first launched on Aug.
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It's one of the ways watchdogs and activists can continue to hold tech companies like Uber accountable.
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Congress already has such a limit, and government watchdogs have long lobbied Albany to adopt similar rules.
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Privacy watchdogs say the FCC's policy is necessary because ISPs can see everything that consumers do online.
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One of the tech industry's loudest watchdogs, Color of Change, is getting a boost from Hillary Clinton.
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The employees, programs, and vision will remain largely the same, the organization has said to college watchdogs.
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New power will also flow to watchdogs such as the electoral commission, anti-corruption outfit and courts.
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The emergence of online crowdfunding platforms is a troubling development in the eyes of far-right watchdogs.
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Some ethics watchdogs and Democratic groups have warned that the Florida club presents a conflict of interest.
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Watchdogs say that is the only way for Trump to truly separate himself from his business interests.
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An honor system isn't going to cut it if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, these watchdogs say.
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And in the process, it now appears even the watchdogs of the Fourth Estate can't be trusted.
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There are also questions about whether Zinke is trying to hide these spending habits from government watchdogs.
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The watchdogs wrote to the company last week asking for more information about the privacy policy change.
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Third, U.S. media, traditionally supposed to function as watchdogs over the government, are not in good shape.
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Overseas watchdogs would defer to regulators in the United States and work in close cooperation with them.
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Hijras figure prominently in India's Muslim history as well, serving as the sexless watchdogs of Mughal harems.
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The president and his top officials are getting taken to task by a range of government watchdogs.
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Fortunately, there are some non-government watchdogs (you get it) keeping an eye on pet supplement manufacturers.
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Top Democrats, immigrant advocacy groups and government watchdogs have raised concerns about the legitimacy of Cuccinelli's appointment.
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President Donald Trump's push to deregulate has led to concerns among environmentalists, labor unions and consumer watchdogs.
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Consumer watchdogs warned against illegal price gouging for such essentials as generators, batteries, flashlights and hotel lodging.
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Regulators and consumer watchdogs worried that the company's fast expansion created new risks for already beleaguered borrowers.
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That is why it's likely that courts and data protection watchdogs will write those rules in Europe.
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Walter Shaub and his crew of ethics watchdogs should persist in their mission for transparency and accountability.
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Media watchdogs accused the Roman Catholic Church of looking to muzzle its opponents and stifle press freedom.
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He was one of the most effective watchdogs in Washington and was every American consumer's best friend.
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The change comes as Google faces growing scrutiny from European Union watchdogs over privacy, among other issues.
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But the operators of these pages may also be violating elections law, according to campaign finance watchdogs.
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Historic district administrators and other neighborhood design watchdogs have gained power over growing urban and suburban territories.
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Unfortunately for these would-be watchdogs, they probably can't compel Icahn to respond in a Republican-controlled Congress.
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However, human rights watchdogs say China abuses these powers to suppress dissent and protest by its own citizens.
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China's financial watchdogs are considering casting a huge new regulatory net over the country's vast shadow banking sector.
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But as long as antitrust watchdogs do their job, closer cooperation among carmakers is nothing to be feared.
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They asked U.S. financial watchdogs how they plan to police start-ups that are moving into banks' territory.
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In April, Swedbank admitted some failings in its money laundering processes and is working with the financial watchdogs.
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Europe's privacy watchdogs had demanded that European and American officials agree to a new deal by Jan. 31.
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Others have been bureaucratic, such as a merger of bank and insurance watchdogs in order to improve oversight.
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The resolution's passage on Capitol Hill last week provoked a fierce backlash from consumer advocates and privacy watchdogs.
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What's more, the country has a horrible human rights record, according to international watchdogs, particularly on religious freedom.
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Aggregate IQ remains the subject of a separate joint investigation by privacy watchdogs in Canada and British Columbia.
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Without these watchdogs ferreting out fraud, waste and abuse, the department is ever more exposed to potential malfeasance.
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Political reporters are not like financial journalists or consumer watchdogs, and they're certainly not experts in psychological warfare.
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Financial watchdogs from Switzerland and Britain are looking into Credit Suisse for arranging the heavy undisclosed sovereign borrowing.
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Trump has used the pardon power to reward friends and punish foes, earning the ire of ethics watchdogs.
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Now with the FCC privacy rules facing elimination, consumer watchdogs say broadband companies are poised for a windfall.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - One of Europe's top bank watchdogs has warned European Union officials that Spain's Banco Popular POP.
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The watchdogs claimed that Make America Number 1 broke FEC regulations by directly coordinating with the Trump campaign.
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Pruitt's frequent travel to Oklahoma at taxpayer expense was his first move that draw attention from government watchdogs.
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But it also points to a fourth problem for watchdogs: the challenge of agreeing to a consistent approach.
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Google is a top target for European regulators and privacy watchdogs, who openly fear and distrust its dominance.
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But it could accelerate the demise of some of those outlets, leaving society with fewer watchdogs and storytellers.
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Facebook briefed lawmakers and watchdogs about its crypto plans, and gained enough comfort to announce Libra in June.
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" The board says that, if they align with the coalition on anything, it's their common role as "watchdogs.
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Arbitration defenders and consumer watchdogs scuffled over how effective each process was at giving consumers what they deserve.
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Like myriad graft cases before it, the Percoco verdict has led to calls for reforms from government watchdogs.
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Human rights watchdogs have documented systematic torture, starvation, and forced labor in North Korean prisons for many years.
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Legal experts and watchdogs believe there is a compelling case that Donald Trump Jr. could be guilty here.
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And it is possible for different bureaucracies within one country to work at cross purposes, rights watchdogs said.
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Almost every Latin American country has expanded the number of watchdogs, or as they are often called, observatories.
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Ethics watchdogs cast him as living proof of the hollowness of Trump's campaign promise to ''drain the swamp.
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Chinese antitrust watchdogs launched a price-fixing investigation into Samsung and its two rivals, Reuters reported in 2018.
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Last year, both firms were fined by anti-trust watchdogs in Singapore and the Philippines for their merger.
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The deal would have to get the green light from the Federal Reserve, and potentially other financial watchdogs.
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The deal would have to get the green light from the Federal Reserve, and potentially other financial watchdogs.
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Facebook has had run-ins with European privacy watchdogs in the past over its processing of users' data.
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Ultra low official interest rates continue to "weigh heavily" on Germany's smaller banks, two watchdogs said on Wednesday.
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Still, the skyrocketing price tags have alarmed budget watchdogs, who warn of another trillion-dollar figure: the deficit.
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Choice of planes is not the only thing that has gotten Cabinet chiefs on the radar of watchdogs.
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Congressional Democrats and government watchdogs say they want more transparency to ensure it's not a conduit for corruption.
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According to watchdogs, there have been more than 600 cases of religious freedom violations in the past two years.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Merging the European Union's insurance and banking watchdogs could weaken financial supervision, top insurers said on Tuesday.
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But ethics watchdogs say that the Senate's version of that legislation doesn't go far enough to hold lawmakers accountable.
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The department, along with college watchdogs called accreditors, have ultimate say over whether the so-called conversions go through.
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It refers to organizations like the S.P.C.A. that adopt out and care for some breeds that can be watchdogs.
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And also by organizations that are the privacy watchdogs that apply pressure to ensure companies are also self-policing.
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America's security watchdogs recently kiboshed the takeover of Qualcomm by Broadcom, a rival semiconductor firm then domiciled in Singapore.
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But the Raffs took their case to the European Union's antitrust watchdogs, arguing that Google had deliberately blacklisted them.
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EU banking, insurance and markets watchdogs have already warned their respective sectors to be ready for a hard Brexit.
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Government watchdogs urged Congress policymakers to set aside their partisan differences and protect benefits for current and future retirees.
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Often, the closing of local papers leaves communities without the watchdogs that can keep municipal governments accountable and productive.
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Under the EU emissions testing regime, national watchdogs approve new cars and have the exclusive power to police manufacturers.
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Speaking shortly before Enria, Nouy said the SSM would create a network of watchdogs sharing information on money laundering.
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Chelsea Clinton's role on the board will only perpetuate the "pay to play" perceptions and accusations, the watchdogs said.
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CSRC made the statement after holding a meeting with provincial government officials and regional financial watchdogs on July 18.
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The news media and many ethics watchdogs embraced that balancing test, so let's apply it to the Bloomberg prosecutors.
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For privacy watchdogs, the flipside of more competition in the social media market is a more complex oversight responsibility.
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Ethics watchdogs, federal auditors and congressional committees are conducting nearly a dozen inquiries into Pruitt's actions at the agency.
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If this bill passes, journalists, government regulators and independent watchdogs won't have a full picture of the housing market.
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Campaign finance watchdogs are calling on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to investigate allegations that GOP presidential hopeful Sen.
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The police are only the watchdogs of the law — the law has always been unfair, has always been biased.
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He is facing multiple inquiries into his actions as EPA administrator from ethics watchdogs, federal auditors and congressional committees.
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Perhaps the president is trying a different tack than his predecessor in order to muzzle or chain the watchdogs.
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U.S. lawmakers and independent watchdogs are keeping tabs on the upgrade program after years of cost overruns and delays.
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Watchdogs may mandate certain levels of customer service or emissions as well as controlling prices and returns on capital.
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Ethics watchdogs, federal auditors and congressional committees are conducting nearly a dozen inquiries into Pruitt's actions at the EPA.
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Even though Scavino used his personal account to publish the offending tweet, ethics watchdogs still concluded he was wrong.
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That access, according to the privacy watchdogs, is not subject to protections that match those currently offered in Europe.
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FOIA requests allow journalists, government watchdogs and others to petition executive branch agencies for documents, communications and other information.
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The threat from global watchdogs is another reason to discount the odds of a major rollback of financial rules.
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The incident emphasizes what industry watchdogs and even Tesla itself have said before: Autopilot isn't a self-driving technology.
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Macri officials and good-government watchdogs say corruption reached epic proportions during the governments of Mr. Kirchner and Mrs.
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The move has alarmed ethics watchdogs, who have called it a power grab, and has fueled protests among Democrats.
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In reality, large, clandestine contributions and illegal vote buying have factored into Mexican elections for decades, corruption watchdogs say.
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The families' dealmaking, the watchdogs suggested, could have influenced Mr. Trump's judgment about Mr. Kushner's role in the administration.
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Transparency watchdogs monitor the rise and fall of Mr Orban's coterie by charting who gets the most public contracts.
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The new law calls for national watchdogs to assume the lead role in overseeing companies headquartered within their borders.
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Russia is regularly criticised by media freedom watchdogs who say attacks on journalists in the country often go unpunished.
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Authorities are stepping up enforcement, Congress is getting more involved, and charity watchdogs are monitoring and reporting on nonprofits.
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European market watchdogs are already investigating the rising price of financial data, which is partly caused by industry consolidation.
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The issue has gained new urgency as lawmakers and watchdogs raise concerns about government officials' use of Trump properties.
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That topic was the focus of a lengthy complaint also filed Thursday with the Department of Homeland Security's watchdogs.
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Democrats and ethics watchdogs accused Mr. Chaffetz of political "retaliation" and of trying to curry favor with Mr. Trump.
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Meanwhile, watchdogs have warned that the chaos and low staffing levels could increase the risk of possible security breaches.
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Despite criticism from the European Union and international media watchdogs, Poland's President Andrzej Duda signed the law into effect.
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"Healthcare watchdogs have documented isolated instances in which Catholic hospitals denied women birth control or sterilization procedures," Redden writes.
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One of the chief congressional watchdogs of DHS, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul, expressed concern about the incident.
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If that happens to you, you should thank the Obama administration — specifically, the antitrust watchdogs at the Department of Justice.
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Companies this big will only take data privacy seriously if national watchdogs show their bite lives up to their bark.
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Media watchdogs were quick to notice the irony that Reid was used by MSNBC to offer her opinion on Barr.
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Cummings and outside government ethics watchdogs said Conway's comments could violate a federal rule barring employees from endorsing a product.
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Her department was criticised by watchdogs in and out of government for lax enforcement of wage and mine-safety laws.
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NTEU said that government watchdogs have been pushing for an increase in IRS employees to improve customer service and enforcement.
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That's on top of other investigations into Pruitt and the EPA by other government watchdogs, Congress, and the White House.
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There are more than a dozen open investigations — by Congress, multiple federal watchdogs, and the White House — into Pruitt's EPA.
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A centralised apparatus, overseeing stock, banking and insurance watchdogs, has reduced the bureaucratic turf muddle that aggravated the prior crash.
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EU, an unofficial Brexit campaign, was Britain's biggest-ever political donation, has been having a busy time with official watchdogs.
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Government watchdogs, members of Congress, and the ACLU have vehemently fought against the program, claiming it lacks grounding in science.
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The bottom line: The watchdogs that have kept municipal governments accountable and productive for more than a century are disappearing.
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However, it's strikingly consistent with what other academics and free speech watchdogs have found when they looked into the issue.
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Every federal agency has an Office of the Inspector General (OIG), intended to be the watchdogs of their own actions.
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Firms can no longer spout platitudes about corporate "values"; independent watchdogs and staff stand ready to brand discrepancies as hypocrisy.
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She asked that the company agree to delay the project until Congress and financial watchdogs can take a closer look.
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He predicted that this sort of debate between central bankers and markets watchdogs over regulation policy will happen more often.
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Swiss and UK financial watchdogs are looking into Credit Suisse's and VTB's involvement in Mozambique, sources told Reuters last month.
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The plan come under criticism from Democrats and top watchdogs, who note Trump's children are also on his transition team.
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Ethics watchdogs and the American public could rest easy knowing that the threat of pay-to-play kleptocracy has abated.
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The emails have so far been circumstantial, although independent watchdogs have said the arrangement raised serious conflict-of-interest concerns.
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Financial watchdogs from Switzerland and Britain are investigating Credit Suisse and VTB Bank for arranging the heavy undisclosed sovereign borrowing.
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Several news outlets and government watchdogs, including CNN, have requested the documents be released under the Freedom of Information Act.
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The setup has drawn criticism from ethics watchdogs, who say it allows for the appearance of a conflict of interest.
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Watchdogs are taking their time, though, in part because none has a clear mandate to regulate so-called fintech firms.
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Watchdogs in Sweden, Netherlands and Austria said earlier this week that they were looking into banks named in the papers.
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Some scientists have called on the federal government to regulate it, and some environmental watchdogs have called for a moratorium.
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Fiscal hawks and nonpartisan budget watchdogs criticized Republican leaders for what they consider a massive breach of responsible fiscal policy.
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The episode left privacy watchdogs wary of how Verizon would handle user data as its reach across the web grew.
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National watchdogs approve new cars and alone have the power to police them - although they are sold across the bloc.
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Also relevant, but unmentioned: the original DeepMind-Royal Free data-sharing agreement remains under investigation by U.K. data protection watchdogs.
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Finally, Mr. Ban should heed the organization's watchdogs who urged him last year to establish a system to compensate victims.
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A spokesman for Mr. Duterte, Ernesto Abella, hit back Monday at what he called "self-styled watchdogs" of human rights.
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By refusing to put more watchdogs on the campaign finance beat, the presidency has managed to shred the laws themselves.
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Why it matters: Across the country, local reporters are watchdogs who keep a close eye on state and local government.
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Government watchdogs fresh from suing AT&T to block its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, will be on notice.
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In addition to the backlash from staffers, news of Isgur's hire was criticized by prominent media watchdogs and journalism academics.
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For government watchdogs, the trial illuminated the swamp of corruption in Albany, as well as officials' refusal to address it.
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However, press freedom watchdogs have reported that the state has been increasingly prosecuting journalists for matters unrelated to their reporting.
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Reeves's campaign and government watchdogs cried foul over Hood's report, which landed seven weeks before voters head to the polls.
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U.S. investigators raised concerns about some of the region's banks early last year, prompting domestic and European watchdogs to investigate.
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But even where political consensus exists, like revising parts of the proprietary-trading ban, change requires support from fellow watchdogs.
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The arrangement has drawn criticism from ethics watchdogs, who say it allows for the appearance of a conflict of interest.
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Even in California, with its strong local safety standards, oil refinery neighbors need all the government watchdogs we can get.
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Bachelet said her organization had collected reports of such abuses, but relied on national human rights watchdogs for that information.
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But their bill would weaken the authority of the independent entity currently probing lawmakers' behavior, according to outside ethics watchdogs.
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Milestones, no matter how significant, should neither be blindly touted nor used as an excuse to call off the watchdogs.
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U.S. watchdogs fresh from suing AT&T to block its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, will be on notice.
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And IGs traditionally proceed with a good amount of independence — they are the internal watchdogs charged with keeping departments honest.
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To consumer watchdogs, however, it may ultimately serve to undermine the public's trust in a technology still coming to market.
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The Washington-based IMF periodically produces assessments of the financial sector of countries and regions, along with recommendations for local watchdogs.
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Asia-based regulatory experts said the U.S. Treasury's position would lead some watchdogs in their region to review their implementation timelines.
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That's because for now, Facebook and it's watchdogs aren't sure exactly what data was stolen or how it was wrongly used.
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And U.S. securities and accounting watchdogs have been railing for more than a decade against the opacity of Chinese bean-counters.
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Government watchdogs have long criticized the maneuver as a way for companies to make donations by funneling them through multiple L.L.C.s.
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Antitrust watchdogs aren't just worried about how Google places ads on websites; they're worried about how it sells that ad space.
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Earlier this month, six human rights watchdogs, media organizations and bloggers successfully applied for a temporary court injunction against the rules.
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IOSCO is a global umbrella group for national securities watchdogs like the FCA in Britain and SEC in the United States.
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They have, after all, complained about things as diverse as capital charges, mortgage reform and how watchdogs handle annual stress tests.
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Internet players, watchdogs and lawmakers are calling for changes to how the agency collects data on broadband access and makes policy.
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An investigation last year by The Wall Street Journal found that so-called watchdogs of higher education rarely take aggressive action.
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That decision has led to numerous claims from watchdogs, and multiple lawsuits, that the president is profiting off of his office.
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FLORIDA (CONGRESS)MAN TO RETIRE: The top Republican in charge of funding for Wall Street watchdogs is retiring from Congress. Rep.
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However, it could be quicker to catch manipulative behavior thought to contribute to them, potentially saving market watchdogs time and money.
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They're still going to need as many watchdogs as ever, and this landmark legal victory won't make us any less vigilant.
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Total amount spent: $4,477,875Number of ads bought: 10,630Finance Watchdogs is a company that offers consulting on credit card debt and mortgages.
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Two top U.S. and British trading watchdogs have agreed to join forces on efforts to help financial technology companies navigate regulations.
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But security watchdogs warn that the shift to 5G could give hackers new inroads to target systems that use the network.
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Earlier this summer, cybersecurity watchdogs realized Android phones were vulnerable to being hacked by simply watching a video with embedded malware.
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One of the U.S. government's most powerful consumer protection watchdogs appears to be quietly probing Uber and the company's privacy practices.
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Possible pattern: Watchdogs worry Trump is purposefully naming and structuring his groups in ways that allow him to avoid the rules.
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Critics and ethics watchdogs say Trump is violating the clause whenever foreign governments make use of his hotels or golf courses.
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Some online nonprofit watchdogs, like Charity Navigator, rate charities based on the proportion of funds spent on administration and fund-raising.
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Consumer advocates and other financial watchdogs say that they would allow a return to the Wild West days on Wall Street.
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Since he took office, government watchdogs have repeatedly raised concerns about Trump turning profits from his clubs while serving as president.
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Sumner and her fellow citizen watchdogs have been banging the drum over how unreliable the calibration of the machines can be.
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"When watchdogs wear blindfolds or fail to evolve with the marketplace, millions of American families can suffer the consequences," he wrote.
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And the party's manifesto includes calls for a "self-regulatory body" for journalists that media watchdogs fear could become a censor.
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But some policing watchdogs and civil libertarians raised alarms, and will be watching to see that the tool is not abused.
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But ethics watchdogs call his divestiture plan inadequate, and a series of missteps by the Kushners themselves has invited further scrutiny.
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Financial watchdogs are trying to force Silicon Valley founders to give investors more control over their companies when they go public.
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Updating and expanding these laws would provide an institutional counterweight to propaganda, and provide watchdogs with the information to fight it.
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Furthermore, to the extent that there is abuse, it might be better tackled by state-level agencies or other federal watchdogs.
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European democracy watchdogs have said previous votes in Azerbaijan have been marred by vote-rigging and unequal access to the media.
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But he did not fully divest from his companies, a move watchdogs said was necessary to eliminate the possibility of conflicts.
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The hearing would allow committee members to pinpoint exactly where Danske and the Danish and Estonian financial watchdogs failed, he said.
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Even the White House National Security Staff and internal watchdogs in the intelligence community had only limited success in curbing excessive spying.
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Nearly everyone working on this emerging technology, from automakers to the tech companies to the government watchdogs, agrees that it's about time.
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Human rights watchdogs have suspected extrajudicial killings of drug suspects may have been covertly carried out by police or at their behest.
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EPIC and the other consumer watchdogs claim the "toys subject young children to ongoing surveillance" and violate privacy and consumer protection laws.
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Product placements The consumer watchdogs claim in the complaint that Genesis' My Friend Cayla doll subjects young children to Disney product placements.
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While ethics watchdogs have raised red flags about intersecting interests in sensitive regions like the Middle East, Sajwani brushes off those concerns.
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While ethics watchdogs have raised red flags about intersecting interests in sensitive regions like the Middle East, Sajwani brushes off those concerns.
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The group of regulators that issued the ban provided a list of 60 major ICO platforms for local financial watchdogs to inspect.
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Watchdogs also want lenders to stop dodgy flows of cash, and the cost of scrutinising customers makes small trade-finance deals unprofitable.
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Some financial watchdogs, with memories of the crisis of 2007-08 still fresh, fear that the loans will soon lose their looks.
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The country has lots of different watchdogs, and who oversees what depends on a company's legal form rather than its economic function.
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Rights watchdogs are particularly alarmed by Yemen's migrant detention facilities, which they say are being run with no regard for international standards.
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They rebuked Iranians accused of violating the country's strict moral codes and persecuted political and religious dissenters, according to human rights watchdogs.
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She also said "strong and coherent" enforcement is essential — but claimed fears that national watchdogs will become "sanctioning machines have not materialised".
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By definition, that means most people have no idea how they work, including lawmakers and members of privacy watchdogs and advocacy groups.
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The dishonest news organizations continued to misrepresent Trump's comments long after watchdogs called them out on social media for misinterpreting the remarks.
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She also posed questions about whether corporate America is ready to police itself (spoiler: not quite) and why we need more watchdogs.
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Watchdogs like the UK's ICO — which just fined Facebook the maximum possible penalty for the Cambridge Analytica scandal — said so this week.
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Aviation watchdogs in America and China, for instance, have suggested that they should run the allocation of slots by an impartial auction.
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The double take from watchdogs highlights the complexity and uncharted territory of launching new bank-like products in a highly regulated industry.
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Britain has struggled to create a stable regulatory regime for its banks, stirring the alphabet soup of watchdogs every decade or so.
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Sweden's and Estonia's financial watchdogs have opened a joint investigation into Swedbank, while Lithuania's financial regulator is separately examining Swedbank's local operations.
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The commission also proposes to cut red tape imposed by national watchdogs on mutual and alternative investment funds from other EU states.
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Freedom of Information Act requests are used by journalists, private citizens, and government watchdogs to acquire public documents from government agencies. FOIA.
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After an investigation by the country's watchdogs, the firm has agreed, among other things, to help smaller online firms sell their wares.
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Facebook has stopped collecting WhatsApp user data across Europe, the Financial Times reports, bowing to pressure from privacy watchdogs across the continent.
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Nonprofit watchdogs and the press already outlined substantial evidence that pregnant women weren't being released on parole like they should have been.
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Disney has agreed to pay $2.5 billion, nearly 5 percent of the deal price, to Fox if watchdogs break up the deal.
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But the ECB spokesperson said the test results would only be used on a "case-by-case" basis by its banking watchdogs.
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Pruitt is currently the subject of multiple inquiries into his actions at the agency from ethics watchdogs, federal auditors and congressional committees.
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However, ethics watchdogs have still expressed concerns that foreign officials could patronize Trump Organization hotels and businesses to gain access to Trump.
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Currently, those hired guns at Definers are monitoring the dedicated watchdogs who know what information is being withheld, and are disputing it.
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Baker Hughes, an oil-field specialist, agreed to sell itself to its rival Halliburton before antitrust watchdogs scuttled the combination this year.
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These watchdogs investigate agency mismanagement, waste, fraud, and abuse, and provide recommendations to improve federal programs and the work of federal agencies.
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Many privacy and consumer watchdogs say beefing up the agency's powers and resources to handle data privacy should be a top priority.
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More than 40 state and provincial watchdogs are participating in "Operation Crypto-Sweep," which has triggered at least 70 investigations so far.
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Its early build-out was marred by allegations of failing to properly vet its board of directors and other complaints from watchdogs.
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Instead, Moonves went on a lengthy monologue about the company's success – much to the chagrin of media watchdogs who&aposd anticipated fireworks.
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The publication is retracting 107 papers, a new record for a single journal retraction according to the science watchdogs at Retraction Watch.
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Congress should remember that IGs are not tame watchdogs, and they may bite members of Congress as well as executive branch officials.
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Watchdogs argue that the database is an essential tool in providing restitution for banking errors and alerting authorities of violations of law.
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But journalism's watchdogs accused her, with some justification, of conflicts of interest, of lacking objectivity and distance from those she wrote about.
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For some budget watchdogs, the uncertainty over federal cuts was a reason for the city to buttress its reserves and demonstrate restraint.
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In the cloud market, Microsoft is a strong and fast-growing No. 2, behind Amazon, safely outside the gaze of antitrust watchdogs.
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But according to tobacco industry watchdogs, leaked P.M.I. documents suggest that its true aim is to promote the company's own vaping products.
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Still, it's difficult to believe that the Chinese could impose an anti-privacy standard with so many privacy watchdogs at the table.
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Consumer safety watchdogs criticized Fisher-Price for waiting years to initiate a recall after first hearing about suffocations linked to the sleeper.
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Some election watchdogs fret that delaying primaries is a step too far, expressing worry that moving primaries could effectively suppress voters' rights.
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The presence of Europeans' data in the scraped stash makes the breach a clear matter of interest to the region's data watchdogs.
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The same goes for the United States Department of Justice indicting Russian military personnel for cyber intrusions that affected sports-doping watchdogs.
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Roosevelt staffers are making calls to Wall Street watchdogs and investor advocates to get their advice about personnel for financial regulatory positions.
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As an ex-criminal defense lawyer and a former federal corruption prosecutor, now joined together as government watchdogs, we beg to differ.
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Last week, Trump signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to appoint regulatory watchdogs who will chew away at their rulemaking authority.
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Senators unveiled a bipartisan bill Thursday that would force federal agencies to post online the recommendations they receive from internal federal watchdogs.
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The issue of overlap between her brand and her work at the White House has frequently raised eyebrows, including among ethics watchdogs.
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Swedbank is under investigation by Baltic and Swedish financial watchdogs and by at least two U.S. authorities and could face substantial fines.
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Financial watchdogs have been vocal about potential risks in initial coin offerings, or digital coins released through fundraisers known as token sales.
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It has also unveiled a new Ad Library for political and issues ads that allows watchdogs to follow campaign spending and messaging.
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Ethics watchdogs and some Democrats in Congress have viewed the convergence of the Trump presidency and his family golf business with suspicion.
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The tech industry needs more watchdogs than ever as its size enlargens the impact of safety failures and the abuse of power.
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Many government and private ethics watchdogs said the president should have gone farther, divesting assets that could cause a conflict of interest.
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President Trump signed an executive order Friday requiring federal agencies to appoint regulatory watchdogs that will chew away at their rulemaking authority.
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Despite scoring relatively high in accountability and transparency by nonprofit watchdogs, the foundation nonetheless became a flash-point in the 2016 election.
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After all, the antitrust watchdogs in Washington, where Google wielded considerable influence during the Obama administration, have not brought cases against Google.
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Media watchdogs have long accused management of infusing news coverage with a Republican bent, through topic selection, guest selection and other variables.
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Government watchdogs are also pushing for an update to FARA that would give the DOJ more power to go after potential lawbreakers.
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But dozens of public interest groups — environmentalists, labor unions, consumer watchdogs — have weighed in on the potential threat to Americans' well-being.
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They also want a second group comprised of Census Bureau staff, stockholders and government watchdogs to assess planning for the 2020 census.
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Sarbhai said the regulatory environment for blockchain and cryptocurrency technology was improving, with financial watchdogs starting to see the benefits of crypto.
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The fiscal watchdogs at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget took a look at the various policy positions that Texas Sen.
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Although the alt-right has splintered and mutated since 2015, extremism watchdogs warn that the far-right continues to pose a threat.
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So I'd like to get to that idea of how you create systems, where especially lawyers to me are the watchdogs of that.
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Now that Trump is president, ethics watchdogs fear Icahn is all too willing to exploit what amounts to a one-sided love affair.
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Between the depth and convenience of access to Facebook ad data, watchdogs could spot problematic campaigns before influencing too much of the electorate.
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Europe's watchdogs are much less of a threat than the EPA, largely because the continent's emissions rules are open to rather wide interpretation.
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While ethics watchdogs had been getting worked up about the implications of Trump Jr.'s visit, many Indians were bemused by the kerfuffle.
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There are more than a dozen open investigations into Pruitt by government watchdogs, the Office of Special Counsel, Congress, and the White House.
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Swedbank is the subject of a joint probe by the Swedish and the Baltic financial watchdogs, originally scheduled to be completed in October.
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Icahn's dual role as a presidential adviser and an investor with interests in multiple industries raised eyebrows with Democratic lawmakers and government watchdogs.
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Several government and private ethics watchdogs said he should have gone further, divesting himself of assets that could cause a conflict of interest.
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"This decision shows exactly why we need strong watchdogs in Congress to ensure thorough oversight of the executive branch," said veteran Republican Rep.
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But rarely has an insurance deal by a Chinese acquirer been blocked outright by international watchdogs, according to people familiar with these transactions.
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We receive the highest ratings for accountability and transparency from independent non-profit watchdogs like Charity Navigator and the BBB Wise Giving Alliance.
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As the industry begins a fresh lobbying push, watchdogs say they are worried about big banks going back to a casino-like past.
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Democrats and ethics watchdogs have raised concerns over potential conflicts of interest due to Trump's business empire and dealings before he became president.
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Some watchdogs have also expressed concerns that Trump's D.C. hotel could violate the emoluments clause, particularly if foreign leaders pay to stay there.
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We were then forced to face uncomfortable truths about officials' involvement in the failed banking sector, as well as about inattentive government watchdogs.
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The proposal came after a series of meetings between Genish, the heads of Italy's communications and competition watchdogs and the Italian industry minister.
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Yiaga, along with the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room are the lead civil society organizations serving as the watchdogs over the electoral process.
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The firm, LJ Strategies LLC, is already registered with the state of Kansas in a move ethics watchdogs say is legal, though unusual.
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The drafts released by WikiLeaks stirred controversy among environmentalists, advocates of internet freedom and privacy, labor leaders and corporate governance watchdogs, among others.
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Government watchdogs say the Supreme Court's decision on Monday to toss out the conviction and two-year prison sentence of former Virginia Gov.
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The firm has worked for Republican candidates for Congress, but has also had clients whose fundraising efforts raised concerns among campaign finance watchdogs.
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Hence the lack of comprehensive details about Libra's approach to privacy and data protection is causing professional watchdogs around the world to worry.
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While some important watchdogs, notably in Brussels, have not yet given the go-ahead, Western approval processes have been trundling forward relatively smoothly.
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Icahn's unofficial position as a regulatory advisor to Trump drew criticism from conflicts-of-interest watchdogs immediately after it was announced last year.
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In a sense, these journalistic watchdogs of the White House are nothing more than stenographers, waiting around for official statements and press handouts.
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Some watchdogs see the moves as promising first steps, but insist they fall short of alleviating their concerns about the way Facebook operates.
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Electoral watchdogs also said there were alarming discrepancies in the voting list that could bring into question the legitimacy of the whole process.
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"People are lamenting that there are no watchdogs, but only dogs," Kwon Seok-cheon, a columnist for the newspaper JoongAng Ilbo, recently wrote.
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The implications: For the approximately 1,400 cities and towns that have lost their newspapers, there are no watchdogs to report on local governments.
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After the notorious 2012 gang rape and murder of a young woman in Delhi, the government appointed new watchdogs and passed new laws.
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The Trump administration and tight coordination of policy are hardly synonymous, so it's not surprising that watchdogs are roaming all over the field.
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Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, rebuked human rights watchdogs and the council's criticism of Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
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Government watchdogs had been warning about security problems at OPM for years before the agency finally discovered it had been hacked in 2015.
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While the new policy is being heralded as a step in the right direction, misinformation watchdogs are calling on Facebook to do more.
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Democrats and government watchdogs have argued that Trump's businesses regularly violate the constitution by accepting patronage from domestic political organizations and foreign officials.
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The EBA document found that the two national watchdogs were in breach of their EU obligations for the period between 2007 and 2014.
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Many government and private ethics watchdogs said he should have gone further, divesting himself of assets that could cause a conflict of interest.
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Elected leaders and watchdogs have struggled to gain a clear understanding of the Police Department's staffing and the decision making behind deployment practices.
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" The CAC called for internet watchdogs and content providers to "foster a good online atmosphere amid the country's efforts to contain the epidemic.
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However, EU privacy watchdogs have raised a number of concerns with the framework, heightening fears that it might not withstand a court challenge.
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The findings showed that banks expect pretax profit to fall by an overall 9 percent over the next five years, the watchdogs said.
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The Trump administration has seven other Cabinet or Cabinet-level officials either currently, previously or potentially under scrutiny from in-house ethics watchdogs.
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The overlap of official government work and private businesses of Mr. Kushner and Mr. Trump has been one of concern for ethics watchdogs.
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"These measures should include both contractual measures and other measures, such as reviewing the consent language used by the client," the watchdogs suggest.
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To be clear, it has a spotty track record: For years, watchdogs have dinged RUS for mismanaging its millions of dollars of investments.
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That fuzzy approach will receive little sympathy from financial watchdogs, which have seen how social media has upended regulation of news and entertainment.
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In the pocket of the fossil fuel lobby Campaign finance watchdogs have tracked hundreds of thousands of oil and gas dollars to Rep.
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Last year Spanish competition watchdogs fined Deutsche Bahn and Renfe, Spain's state rail company, over €75m for collusion in the country's rail-freight market.
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Since the UAE's antitrust watchdogs are under the thumb of the governments that own the airlines, they will get no say in the matter.
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The government watchdogs, in their letter this week, agreed with Atkinson, saying protections from whistleblowers shouldn't be reduced because of the Justice Department's stance.
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Others say DOJ watchdogs should investigate and others still say any response to Trump's behavior is now up to voters in the November elections.
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Calls are growing for the European Central Bank or the European Banking Authority, an EU agency, to be given more powers over national watchdogs.
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Both VCs and watchdogs must understand there is nothing inherently inappropriate about meeting over dinner or drinks to discuss potential investment or operating strategy.
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In general, free press watchdogs like RSF and human rights advocacy organizations like Amnesty International do not have high expectations for the Chinese government.
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The garbled response from rival securities and banking watchdogs prompted Chinese officials to explore setting up a super-agency to oversee all the regulators.
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But then Spitzer had that whole sex-with-a-hooker thing and resigned, and without his watchdogs, the costs ballooned to FOUR BILLION DOLLARS.
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Verstager said that Bayer was being cooperative with the competition watchdogs, a factor that would help the Commission keep to the April 5 deadline.
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China is studying plans to set up a "super regulator" to improve coordination between its banking, securities and insurance watchdogs, sources have told Reuters.
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Chinese government bodies from transport, social security, industry watchdogs and immigration said they had suspended services ranging from processing applications to traffic crime enforcement.
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The suit follows ongoing court action on the matter by Australian regulators, and comes amid increasing scrutiny by global watchdogs on potential market manipulation.
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Under Yuma's leadership, Gecamines has faced repeated allegations of corruption by local and international watchdogs, including the misappropriation of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Ice Cube, 19923, was once a member of NWA, a group that, like GNR, attracted the ire of parental watchdogs led by Tipper Gore.
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Watchdogs have repeatedly argued that, short of divestment, such a trust is the only way Trump could truly separate himself from his private interests.
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But it's a false choice, because any well-functioning government operating in good faith would provide its watchdogs with enough funding to do both.
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The trading watchdogs say they don't want to hamper the market, but want greater oversight authority to ensure cryptocurrency offerings comply with federal law.
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Joseph Otting, the actual nominee, is awaiting confirmation, and Noreika has actually exceeded the time limits placed on a special government employee, watchdogs contend.
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It would also potentially account for BitConnect's collapse, which came after multiple cease and desist letters from securities watchdogs in Texas and North Carolina.
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Democrats and watchdogs further argue that the president has already politicized Independence Day by inserting himself into traditionally apolitical celebrations on the National Mall.
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That could undermine legitimate journalists seeking to fill a role as genuine government watchdogs in the future, whether that's under Trump or subsequent presidents.
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The United States is lucky to have these watchdogs in Congress monitoring and evaluating the Pentagon's audit efforts in the weeks and months ahead.
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Such fees, which average around $11 a month and can swallow most of the card's initial value, have been termed predatory by consumer watchdogs.
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The Trump Organization and Kushner Companies are ending plans for a partnership to manage two hotels in New Jersey amid scrutiny from ethics watchdogs.
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He has a good reputation, and IGs traditionally operate with a good amount of independence from their department leaders, serving as watchdogs of sorts.
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Swedbank is the subject of a joint investigation by the Swedish and Baltic financial watchdogs and is also being investigated in the United States.
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Cohen disclosed the details in an apparent attempt to silence campaign watchdogs who analyzed the transaction as a possible breach of campaign finance laws.
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Swedbank is the subject of a joint investigation by the Swedish and Baltic financial watchdogs and is also being investigated in the United States.
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European market watchdogs have moved to tighten rules on short selling in an effort to stem the historic losses arising from the coronavirus pandemic.
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On Monday, Mr. Simmons announced his Utah-based institution would lobby watchdogs to nix its status as a SIFI — a systemically important financial institution.
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On Monday, Quito's Council for the Protection of Rights, one of Ecuador's main human rights watchdogs, condemned Moreno's comments for "joking" about sexual harassment.
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But good-government watchdogs said that such a justification circumvented the intention of the law, which was meant to reward chairmen for extra work.
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Watchdogs in government have questioned the management and costs of the program, and both Boeing and SpaceX have suffered technological setbacks along the way.
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Hensarling has also called on federal watchdogs to investigate whether Cordray violated the Hatch Act, citing media reports about his potential run for office.
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Ethics watchdogs say Trump may be breaching ethics and the Constitution by profiting off of state and federal governments, as well as foreign governments.
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Understanding how individual advertisements are being aimed at specific audiences could help election watchdogs detect efforts to interfere with groups of voters, said McCoy.
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That sparked a backlash from ethics watchdogs who are concerned the President and his family are putting a for-sale sign on US policy.
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Global financial watchdogs like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have warned that mounting weakness in Germany and Turkey could spread regionally.
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Grant told me he considers the awakening of audit firms as corporate watchdogs to be one of his signal accomplishments as a shareholders' lawyer.
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But over the years, government watchdogs and unions have raised flags, warnings that are getting renewed attention in light of the two Boeing crashes.
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For decades, consumer advocates and media watchdogs have warned about the dangers of media consolidation and the nation's obsession with often-mindless merger mania.
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FBI Director James Comey acknowledged during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last October that the FBI received a "security referral" from the watchdogs.
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Undaunted—and encouraged by financial supervisors and competition watchdogs—a platoon of challengers is nonetheless taking on the giants, on the high street and online.
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The expectation federal watchdogs will be more lenient under the Republican administration is creating tension with Democrat state regulators, in some cases sparking legal clashes.
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In the meantime, the watchdogs said they are working on amendments to bring the EU rules in line with what other key countries are doing.
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By digitizing different tasks, watchdogs can also request regular checks to make sure banks' clients remain compliant and monitor potential risk and fraud more closely.
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Rights watchdogs consider Honduras one of the most hostile and dangerous countries for human rights defenders, saying violence and impunity for abuses are the norm.
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In the U.K., competition and ad watchdogs have been clamping down on social media stars for not disclosing paid ads in their social media posts.
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Britain's lawmakers have called for greater scrutiny of moves between watchdogs and the firms they oversee amid concerns they can erode the independence of regulators.
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The House panel will also hold a separate hearing with the internal watchdogs for the Homeland Security and Health and Human Services departments this Friday.
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The Facebook-owned app's quest to "move fast" to grow its user base and business seems to have raced beyond what its watchdogs could safeguard.
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If negotiators agree to a new pact, she and Europe's other privacy watchdogs will help decide whether the new agreement meets the region's tough standards.
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Mr Zuma hollowed out institutions, appointed crooks and liars to senior jobs and ensured that the watchdogs who are supposed to stop corruption were muzzled.
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He has made a good start, cleaning out the boards of state-owned companies and appointing watchdogs with teeth and the inclination to use them.
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Despite the lack of fanfare, animal lovers and environmental watchdogs took notice and are now taking strides to save other species from the same fate.
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Many Uighurs have disappeared into internment camps, last year watchdogs estimated that up to a million people could be incarcerated in these specially designed prisons.
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He limits access to information for federal inspectors general, the agency watchdogs charged with combating waste, fraud, and abuse and rooting out corruption in government.
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To really drive the point home, Blue is teaming up with Ubisoft to bundle Watchdogs 2 with the Blackout version of its excellent Yeti mic.
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Nordic financial watchdogs said in October they had received documents from Bill Browder's Hermitage Capital, alleging Nordea breached its responsibilities under anti-money laundering laws.
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Members of Congress and other watchdogs have critiqued Michigan for a lack of transparency in the wake of the water crisis and the Legionnaires' outbreak.
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The emerging gulf in the sector comes as China's financial watchdogs unleash a 'regulatory storm' aimed at controlling risk, reckless loans and at improving supervision.
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They have no choice and virtually no voice as state agencies charged with being watchdogs instead serve as lapdogs for Xcel and the environmental left.
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The two companies are still embroiled in lawsuits over the failed merger, which came under intense scrutiny from government regulators and criticism from public watchdogs.
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In 2011, for example, the department canceled a radiation-detection project that cost $230 million over five years after watchdogs raised questions about its efficacy.
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Although the group promised to take no collective action until it has reviewed the agreement, some countries' watchdogs had already taken steps towards tightening regulations.
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In doing so, Warren and Sanders are positioning themselves as liberal watchdogs in Congress who will not hesitate to hold Trump's feet to the fire.
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Critics and ethics watchdogs have insisted that receiving such payments violates a provision of the Constitution barring public officials from accepting gifts from foreign governments.
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Here's what they'll say: How can the Republicans further cut taxes without facing a major backlash from conservative deficit hawks and non-partisan fiscal watchdogs?
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Watchdogs have criticized President Trump for bringing his family into the administration, as well as their decision not to completely disentangle from their sprawling businesses.
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Still, campaign finance watchdogs say such activity distorts what tax laws intended those "social welfare" groups to do, while allowing their backers to remain anonymous.
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Politicians and financial industry watchdogs had been calling for Stumpf to step aside after the bank was fined $185 million by state and federal regulators.
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And since the dawn of the internet, their devices have become far trickier — especially for would-be parental watchdogs who are far less digitally savvy.
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Expensive and elaborate practices, such as flying in first class airplane seats, have drawn the attention of watchdogs like the EPA's own inspector general. Rep.
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Angeloni said Brexit will require greater cooperation between the ECB and UK watchdogs, citing the Bank of England's supervisory arm, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA).
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Financial watchdogs across the world have intensified their scrutiny of cryptocurrencies following last year's rally in prices and a surge in types of new coins.
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More than 40 state and provincial watchdogs are participating in what's being called "Operation Crypto-Sweep," which has triggered at least 70 investigations so far.
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A trio of key Democratic senators is calling on agency watchdogs to investigate why the Trump administration has not fully implemented mandated sanctions on Russia.
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Watchdogs worldwide are circling, and the firm may face a fine of up to 4 percent of annual revenue in Europe for its recent hack.
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Trump chose to maintain ownership of his businesses while president, an arrangement that government watchdogs have criticized due to the potential for conflicts of interest.
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However, watchdogs such as Common Cause have brought the PAC's past spending efforts to light with a number of legal complaints filed to the FEC.
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Both watchdogs have also called for local privacy laws to be beefed up so that regulators have stronger sanctioning powers to protect the public's interest.
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Washington (CNN)Two federal watchdogs have launched investigations into the government's handling of unaccompanied migrant children, including those separated from their parents at the border.
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"Watchdogs who value whistleblowers are shockingly rare in the Intelligence Community," Irvin McCullough, a national security analyst for the whistleblower aid organization Government Accountability Project.
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The industry has also been preparing to repel watchdogs' recent surprise recommendation to Congress to repeal the banks' ability to engage in merchant-banking activities.
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These days the toughest sheriffs in town are the social media watchdogs ready to name and shame any designer they think guilty of cultural appropriation.
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Diet Prada, the social media watchdogs of the fashion industry, posted screenshots of an exchange that appeared to be between Gabbana and model Michaela Tranova.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation began investigating Clinton's email system after government watchdogs found that some of her messages contained classified government secrets last year.
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After years as a sleepy federal backwater, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission became one of Wall Street's most aggressive watchdogs during the Barack Obama administration.
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And some budget watchdogs expressed worry about the long-term impact of a plan they said could cost more than $2 trillion over a decade.
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Campaign finance watchdogs assert the transaction was the result of a secret, and illegal, effort to subvert election spending laws on behalf of the president.
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Some election watchdogs say the payment may run afoul of election laws if the payment was made so as not to damage Trump's presidential ambitions.
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Facebook's various data privacy blunders haven't helped either, with global policymakers and data protection watchdogs worried about the implications of libra for consumers' personal information.
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International watchdogs, including the Carter Center and Global Witness, say that hundreds of millions of dollars of Gecamines' revenues in recent years have gone missing.
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Because it concerns the criteria for the CAT even to consider damages, its verdict will be eagerly awaited by lawyers, litigation financiers and consumer watchdogs.
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We've been waiting for a long time to hear how Trump would deal with his businesses, and his refusal to divest drove ethics watchdogs crazy.
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But information gathered by internal government watchdogs and congressional testimony, however, suggests that several agency heads were caught by surprise by the White House edicts.
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Ethics watchdogs, however, say the bipartisan House bill would weaken the authority of the Office of Congressional Ethics, the independent entity currently handling lawmakers' behavior.
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They recommended that compliance with the new fiscal rules should be monitored by national watchdogs which would be supervised by an independent euro zone institution.
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Consumer watchdogs and regulators had raised serious concerns about biased practices in some communities after banks pulled back from mortgage lending following the financial crisis.
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The shifting mission of the department has led some budget watchdogs to call for a fundamental reorientation of the Fire Department toward emergency medical response.
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Several other European privacy watchdogs, such as Spain's, have said they intend to contact Facebook about WhatsApp's privacy policy change but have not yet done so.
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Photo: APThe moment Michael O'Rielly took the stage at CPAC and told people who they should vote for, ethics watchdogs say he broke a federal law.
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Lawmakers and independent watchdogs are anxious to keep tabs on the upgrade program after years of cost overruns and delays on the initial fighter jet program.
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China Minsheng Banking chief analyst Wen Bin said regulatory standards differed between watchdogs and a unified system would help regulators cut systemic risks and financial leverage.
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Consumer privacy watchdogs filed a federal complaint Monday against Facebook over the tech titan's decision to begin harvesting phone numbers from its popular WhatsApp messaging service.
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Washington (CNN)During the early days of the Trump administration, lawmakers and government watchdogs complained agencies weren't turning over Cabinet secretaries' schedules as has been practice.
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Lawmakers and independent watchdogs are anxious to keep tabs on an upgrade program after years of cost overruns and delays on the initial fighter jet program.
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As five years of benign credit and abundant liquidity comes to an end, watchdogs are probing lenders' internal models to test their resilience to turbulent markets.
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It comes as he faces growing scrutiny from Congress, the White House, and government watchdogs for his travel, spending, and treatment of staff on the job.
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They enrolled tens of millions of students, particularly in the wake of the recession, with tactics that government watchdogs and agencies have called deceptive and exploitative.
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But as a number of campaign-finance watchdogs have noted — and Bloomberg, among others, has reported — Facebook allowed ads without significant disclosure on its platform anyway.
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Kickbacks and corruption Corruption watchdogs blame so-called "tenderpreneurs" -- individual councilors who get kickbacks for awarding dodgy government contracts -- for fueling corruption at the local level.
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Indonesian election watchdogs have reported a spike in fake news during the campaign amid concerns about the impact in a country of avid social media users.
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AI, for example, entails the attention of watchdogs like the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, so the fewer autocratic political backers, the better.
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Swedbank is the subject of a joint investigation by Swedish and Estonian financial watchdogs after a media report tied it to the Danske money laundering scandal.
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Brussels concluded that banks often did not comply with anti-money laundering requirements, while watchdogs in member states failed to prevent and effectively address the shortfalls.
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Sen. Ron Wyden wants government ethics watchdogs to probe Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's "Lego Batman" comments made during an Axios interview last week, according to Reuters.
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Swedbank is the subject of a joint investigation by Swedish and Estonian financial watchdogs after a media report tied Swedbank to the Danske money laundering scandal.
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That has prompted outcry from various ethics and transparency watchdogs, including Judicial Watch, which argue the public deserves to know who is visiting the White House.
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Jeff Flake, the Arizona Republican, introduced a resolution on Tuesday that would roll back the FCC's privacy policy, drawing howls of protest from consumer privacy watchdogs.
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European privacy watchdogs are planning to investigate data harvesting on social media platforms as Facebook's data privacy scandal has invited scrutiny from regulators around the world.
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Both U.S. commodities and securities watchdogs are questioning whether the same rules for stocks should apply to these digital currencies, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
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Regulated utilities are usually cautious on premiums because cost savings often only last until watchdogs push prices down and shift most of the benefit to customers.
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Washington (CNN)A summer visit that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke made to the Vegas Golden Knights hockey team is now under two investigations by federal watchdogs.
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Nordic financial watchdogs said in October that they had received documents from Bill Browder's Hermitage Capital, alleging Nordea breached its responsibilities under anti-money laundering laws.
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KBW's analysis, though, looks specifically at what the fallout will be beyond the bank itself and finds that government regulators and consumer watchdogs will be emboldened.
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It's something the startup prides itself on but has irritated media watchdogs who reprimanded TikTok for showing users "unacceptable" content, such as videos depicting adolescent pregnancies.
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The Friday morning tweets drew criticism from ethics watchdogs, and some reporters noted that the Trump family had previously pledged to avoid mixing business and government.
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Malta's Pilatus Bank and Latvia's ABLV were also accused of laundering money by U.S. authorities, spurring charges that European watchdogs had failed to tackle the problem.
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Chief Executive Mike Corbat has been understandably laser-focused on returning capital and appeasing watchdogs, objectives that eluded his predecessor and lifted him into the job.
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Swedish and Estonian financial watchdogs opened a joint investigation this month after a media report linking Swedbank to the Baltic money laundering scandal involving Danske Bank .
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The regulator - formed after the recent merger of China's banking and insurance watchdogs - will also tell them to reduce unnecessary off-balance sheet business, Wang said.
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Countless cases—sometimes litigated by vigilant watchdogs like the libertarian Institute for Justice—show that innocent people are all too often swept up in this dragnet.
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Jeff Flake, the Arizona Republican, introduced a resolution on Tuesday that would roll back the FCC's privacy policy, drawing howls of protest from consumer privacy watchdogs.
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Why it matters: Government ethics watchdogs have claimed that this kind of spending reveals a presidential conflict of interest — or at the very least, bad optics.
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Swedish and Estonian financial watchdogs opened a joint investigation this month following a media report linking Swedbank to the Baltic money laundering scandal involving Danske Bank.
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Contrite Navy officials conceded that they had accepted increasing risks with uncertified ships and crews, despite repeated warnings from congressional watchdogs and the Navy's own experts.
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This means a deal could also draw the attention of watchdogs in Italy and the United States, which is locked in a trade war with China.
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This means a deal could also draw the attention of watchdogs in Italy and the United States, which is locked in a trade war with China.
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The decline in press freedom in Bulgaria is well documented by Reporters Without Borders, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom and other media watchdogs.
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Icahn's dual role as a presidential adviser and an investor with interests in multiple industries raised eyebrows earlier this year with Democratic lawmakers and government watchdogs.
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Many of the agreements highlight how regulators are often more like collaborators than watchdogs, exploring joint research and patent deals that they agree to keep secret.
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Budget watchdogs are howling over last-minute deals that will add hundreds of billions of dollars to the deficit as part of year-end spending legislation.
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For example, Helping a Hero, which builds homes for wounded soldiers, has impressive credentials, high grades from watchdogs but, above all, a great story to tell.
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But the states, as well as federal antitrust watchdogs and Congress, are signaling the pendulum has swung and it is time for closer scrutiny and oversight.
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The bureau — criticized in the past by government watchdogs and Congress for cost overruns and management missteps — is strapped for cash in a critical preparation year.
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She has repeatedly challenged watchdogs like the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department for what she sees as a lax approach to financial wrongdoers.
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While the proposal on bundling would not ban it, it would remove the match for those funds — a significant improvement in the view of government watchdogs.
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Global privacy watchdogs from the U.K., US and EU have expressed concern over how little Facebook has addressed how it will protect user information with libra.
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Andriukaitis said he planned to organize a meeting of ministers and national watchdogs before the end of September in an attempt to resolve the ongoing dispute.
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The case for tighter auditing has been bolstered by public statements from regulators and accounting watchdogs highlighting the potentially systemic risks that climate change could pose.
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But the states, as well as federal antitrust watchdogs and Congress, are signaling the pendulum has swung and it is time for closer scrutiny and oversight.
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Budget watchdogs said that deficits had doubled in recent years as a result of bipartisan spending agreements and the GOP tax-cut law passed in December.
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And watchdogs, self-appointed and otherwise, with backing from an Internet full of facts (or approximations thereof), are also inspecting the underpinnings of films much more closely.
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Global watchdogs like the FSB face the choice of accommodating the United States or risk having the world's most important capital market pulling back from international rulemaking.
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Why should we need AI watchdogs surveilling our emotional state inside vehicles (which will really just be nap and entertainment pods at that point, much like airplanes).
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Under Margrethe Vestager, the competition commissioner, watchdogs slapped Alphabet with a $2.8 billion fine in the summer for favoring its own shopping price comparison service over rivals.
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More than ever, it is necessary for the public to serve as watchdogs over their internet providers now that the FCC has shed itself of that responsibility.
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Others at the rally spoke about the effects of fossil fuels and the warming of our planet and keeping scientists within government ranks to serve as watchdogs.
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European Union data protection watchdogs are still concerned over Microsoft's privacy settings in Windows 10, despite the software maker announcing changes to the way it collects data.
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That would make Cade the latest in a string of competition watchdogs to sanction the deal, pending only approval in Europe, which is expected by Nov. 15.
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Deutsche Bank notified U.S. financial watchdogs about suspicious transactions by accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — a customer of the bank — according to a new report Tuesday.
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Human Rights Watch and TRIAL International, watchdogs based in New York and Geneva respectively, have detailed other allegations of sexual abuse by Mr Jammeh and his aides.
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The episode will vindicate those who already think its opaque structure, complex corporate governance and recurring run-ins with environmental watchdogs as reason enough to avoid it.
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It is possible that Sina decided to mount its campaign in a highly public manner in order to show off its zeal to the party's media watchdogs.
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But given Hollywood's perceived leanings, conservative watchdogs in particular will be on high alert for comments, speeches and slights aimed at Republicans and presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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In Washington, DC, there is a new pack of watchdogs selected by President Donald Trump, who received little support from the tech industry during his presidential campaign.
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The move to amend legislation mirrors similar tactics used in Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic Congo to extend limits, a trend that has alarmed democracy watchdogs.
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If a deal has not been reached by February 2nd, European data-privacy watchdogs should tell their negotiators to keep talking, not start a cascade of prohibitions.
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Regulators were particularly criticised for allowing that to happen on their watch and for being reluctant to sue, prompting a tougher stance from watchdogs in the sector.
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" Media watchdogs quickly called out Stelter for hypocrisy, since he was among the reporters who helped pushed the narrative that the first lady was "missing in action.
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Policymakers and financial watchdogs in the United States and elsewhere fear widespread adoption of the digital currency by Facebook's 2.38 billion users could upend the financial system.
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Ron Johnson, who chairs a Senate committee that held a hearing Wednesday on the matter and asked representatives of government watchdogs why it went on so long.
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Republicans may soon control all federal branches of power, but plenty of sources of oversight remain, from state attorneys general to non-governmental watchdogs and the media.
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The EU's MiFID II securities law does not harmonize how foreign platforms can put trading screens in the EU, meaning national watchdogs exercise discretion, leading to inconsistencies.
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Inspectors General are effective, essential watchdogs in any governmental operation (to include state and local agencies); but their role also makes them extremely unpopular in political circles.
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But Painter and other ethics watchdogs said the episode was appalling and another example of the blurred lines between the Trump administration's business interests and public policy.
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Nordic financial watchdogs said in October they had received documents from Bill Browder's Hermitage Capital Management, alleging Nordea had breached its responsibilities under anti-money laundering laws.
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Catanzaro and Knight have drawn some of the most intense scrutiny of government watchdogs because their new jobs seem to closely align with their private-sector lobbying.
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In plans published in June the European Commission said relocation would be a last resort and would only concern central counterparties deemed as systemic by EU watchdogs.
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Three sources at different EU banking watchdogs told Reuters the total number of banks that had submitted applications so far across Europe was still in single digits.
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But as the chairman of the commission he became one of the most aggressive watchdogs in the effort to rein in Wall Street after the financial crisis.
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Unlike earlier presidents, President Donald Trump has maintained ownership of his real estate company, the Trump Organization, in an arrangement that watchdogs say poses conflicts of interest.
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Despite the budget's blueprint for slashing trillions in spending, watchdogs noted that in practice, it only called for $85033 billion to be cut through budget reconciliation. Rep.
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Political and legal watchdogs have been tossing out ideas as to who Obama could choose to fill the seat since news of Scalia's death broke on Saturday.
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The EU's European Securities and Markets Authority, which oversees securities markets in conjunction with national watchdogs like the AFM, has repeatedly said it also needs more resources.
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In addition to the FBI, Clinton's unusual email situation is also under scrutiny from internal watchdogs at the State Department and a collection of federal intelligence agencies.
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Amputations and other serious injuries are commonplace but often go unreported to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, according to labor advocates and workplace safety watchdogs.
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But the India trip raised concern among some ethics watchdogs that the Trump Organization, President Trump's for-profit company, is hawking access to the president's son abroad.
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While Democrats and financial industry watchdogs bemoaned Cordray's departure and expressed worry over the future of consumer protection, industry advocates cheered the potential for a new direction.
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Media watchdogs said the charges against Ressa were trumped up and aimed at intimidating those who challenge Duterte's rule, in particular his deadly crackdown on illicit drugs.
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Financial regulators will also quickly overlap with - or clash with - competition watchdogs and data protection authorities which are taking a more muscular approach to big technology companies.
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Bureau of Land Management officials aimed to updated the standards after government watchdogs raised concerns about how the BLM was measuring fossil fuel production on federal lands.
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If central bankers and market watchdogs are monitoring this niche area of financial markets, Japanese corporations are avoiding it, preferring to raise dollar cash by issuing bonds.
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So, very clearly, the company hasn't been spending any of the past 27 days warning affected individuals or informing data watchdogs that its systems had been breached.
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A coalition of left-wing advocates, national-security groups and government watchdogs have launched a collective effort to organize protests in the event of a Rosenstein firing.
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The SFC added it has taken a leading role in discussions around fintech within IOSCO and conducts dialogue with other watchdogs through a dedicated fintech liaison officer.
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But lobbying watchdogs say the House language highlights their growing concerns with K Street, which is one of the few industries enjoying a boom amid the crisis.
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But as the chairman of the commission he became one of the most aggressive watchdogs in the effort to rein in Wall Street after the financial crisis.
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Clinical-trial watchdogs rightly note that using too many measures or outcome targets or patient subsets can open the door to cherry-picking or moving the goalposts.
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Both watchdogs have warned of the considerable risks posed by the volatile currency and have said they may not be able to protect investors from cryptocurrency fraudsters.
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The G.D.P.R. rules were approved in late 2015 after tech companies like Facebook ran into problems over data protection with national privacy watchdogs in various European countries.
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But they should be wary of so-called credit repair companies that promise to scrub credit files and improve credit scores for a fee, consumer watchdogs say.
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The police have used water cannons, tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets while dispersing crowds, and their tactics have been criticized by protesters and international watchdogs.
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The private meetings drew criticism from the Albany press corps and government watchdogs, who questioned why the governor's office had not initially scheduled a public budget briefing.
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While regulatory agencies and watchdogs are becoming more active, they must be careful not to stir up unnecessary outrage, such as in the Wounded Warrior Project situation.
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And in the United States, takeover watchdogs have blocked several deals that they say could affect national security, while some lawmakers are calling for even tighter reviews.
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The government in recent weeks has issued a flurry of rebuttals to civil society groups and watchdogs who have expressed concern over the behavior of the police.
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After that ruling, many prosecutors and government watchdogs expressed anxiety that the court had created a safe harbor for a subtle, wink-and-nod version of corruption.
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She urges the immigrant community's Rapid Response team, watchdogs who alert one another when they see arrests or other activities that cause them concern, to be vigilant.
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Government watchdogs and the President's opponents argue the payments to Trump's business from governments -- domestic or foreign --violate anti-corruption and self-dealing clauses in the Constitution.
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Europe's data privacy watchdogs could ask for a review of a pending transatlantic data transfer deal in two years, sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
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For years, labor activists and watchdogs have documented poor pay, dangerous work conditions, and anti-union tactics among Sodexo's hundreds of thousands of employees around the world.
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Today, if you are conservative or liberal, you have your own television networks, newspapers, magazines, blogs, podcasts, media watchdogs, foundations, opinion research, authors, thought leaders and benefactors.
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Some budget watchdogs have expressed caution at the proposal, and observed that the state already has a version of a mansion tax for homes over $1 million.
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Haiti has a long tradition of corruption and international partners and anti-graft watchdogs have often blamed Haitian politicians for failing to crack down on the scourge.
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Nunes was later cleared of the ethics charges, and moved to push the investigation away from President Donald Trump's finances, raising concerns among Democrats and nonpartisan watchdogs.
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The move follows a decision by European Union privacy watchdogs to look deeper into the harvesting of personal data from social networks for economic or political purposes.
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But now, under the Trump administration, those safeguards are at risk of being watered down or repealed, shifting the burden to protect national parks to environmental watchdogs.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedbank's Estonian offices have been searched this week as part of the joint investigation by the Baltic and Swedish financial watchdogs, Estonian authorities said on Tuesday.
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The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published recommendations for national insurance watchdogs on how to treat policies that EU customers have bought from UK-based insurers.
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The White House response drew heavy criticism from ethics watchdogs, who complained that the president appeared to be intimidating a private business to pad a family member's profits.
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Since Duterte took office in 2016, more than 4,200 drug suspects had been killed in clashes with police, alarming human rights groups, Western governments and U.N. rights watchdogs.
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Policymakers and financial watchdogs at home and abroad are concerned about the effect of widespread adoption of Libra by Facebook's 2.38 billion users on the global financial system.
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The incoming president has also made it clear that he is no friend of human rights groups and corruption watchdogs that investigate the police's battles against criminal gangs.
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But government watchdogs say the program has diverted $1.5 billion that could have been used on public services, including health, and that the program is vulnerable to corruption.
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Newsrooms that covered city hall, rogue developments, the people in a community, the local fabric and served as everyday watchdogs have been unable to survive the digital change.
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This document release comes as the embroiled EPA chief faces questions from Congress, the White House, and federal watchdogs over his travel, security, treatment of staff, and more.
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But if a new pact is not approved — or does not meet national regulators' standards — some European privacy watchdogs may demand new limits on the movement of data.
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WHEN YOU come into contact with the competition establishment in the rich world—regulators, academics, lawyers —the cruellest comparison is with financial watchdogs before the 2125-22017 crash.
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Ethics attorneys argue that the complexity of her finances makes it nearly impossible for government watchdogs to track who may be trying to have an influence over her.
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Media watchdogs have said the charges against Ressa were trumped up and aimed at intimidating those who challenge Duterte's rule, in particular his deadly crackdown on illicit drugs.
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National and European watchdogs can already prevent banks from making payments when lenders are already deemed to fail, under bail-in rules that came into effect this year.
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In the wake of his comments last week, media organizations continued to misrepresent Trump's comments long after watchdogs called them out on social media for misinterpreting the remarks.
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The Clintons have vehemently denied any conflicts of enrichment or improper dealings, emphasizing the charity's high esteem in the world and by watchdogs for the work it does.
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Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said in a statement today that he would be calling on the government's top financial "watchdogs" to assess the company's crypto and blockchain efforts.
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The SRB also needed more flexibility in setting individual MREL targets, and powers to directly impose them on banks rather than leaving this to national watchdogs, she said.
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People familiar with the deal said they did not expect antitrust watchdogs to ask for divestments, for example in the clearing operations, to grant approval for the deal.
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In recent months, trade unions and citizen advocacy groups have increased pressure on industry watchdogs and federal auditors to stop state asset sales aimed at cutting Brazil's debt.
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He said it was impossible to compare the treatment made at Erasmus with Lutathera, which received approval from EU watchdogs after proving it worked in its exact formulation.
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AP said the group of government watchdogs fear that refusing to call Trump an "employee" provides her a legal loophole between her government policy roles and financial interests.
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This means multiple privacy watchdogs need to work together to determine which of them is legally competent to address linked complaints that touch EU citizens in multiple countries.
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Municipal governments are required by law to make annual water quality reports available to the public, but water bottlers are regulated by consumer watchdogs and not environmental agencies.
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But major shareholders in Swedbank, which is the subject of a joint inquiry by the Swedish, Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian financial watchdogs, were not satisfied by the report.
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Watchdogs recall that the Clinton Foundation made sweeping written promises about transparency to the Obama administration in late 28503 before Hillary Clinton was confirmed as secretary of State.
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The Trump administration's refusal to comply with the request has raised suspicions among government watchdogs over how many waivers the Trump administration is handing out and to whom.
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The overhaul has been criticised by civil society campaigners, international democracy watchdogs, the EU and opposition parties in Poland for making the courts submit to more government control.
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Market watchdogs globally are debating how and whether they should regulate the cryptocurrency industry and have mostly focused on protecting investors from the scams based on digital assets.
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The British government issued proposals last year on improving the pensions landscape and opened a consultation with industry players and watchdogs on the regulation of the pension superfunds.
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With minimal local journalism, citizens lack the information they need to make important decisions about their elected officials and schools; without watchdogs, corruption and environmental degradation can increase.
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The news comes amid nearly a dozen inquiries by ethics watchdogs, federal auditors and congressional committees into Pruitt's actions at the helm of the federal government's environmental regulator.
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TRUMP Unlike earlier presidents, President Donald Trump has maintained ownership of his real estate company, the Trump Organization, in an arrangement that watchdogs say poses conflicts of interest.
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Among the many ethics reform measures H.R. 1 aims to implement are closing loopholes for lobbyists and foreign agents and ensuring watchdogs have resources to enforce the law.
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But the risks in the portfolios are often not vetted or even understood by investors, which has led several industry watchdogs to call for better disclosure and education.
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Scientists and environmental watchdogs have long known that coal ash pits—of which there are more than a thousand in the United States—were leaking toxins into groundwater.
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But Democrats and liberal watchdogs seized the opportunity to accuse Mr. Trump of practicing exactly the sort of corrupt politics that he rails against on the campaign trail.
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WATCHDOGS PRAISE, WALL STREET FUMES: Wall Street is fuming over regulators' rejection of the dismantlement plans from five major domestic banks, after news of the decision leaked early.
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Public confidence in the V.A., sorely tested, will not be repaired until the appalling suicide rate goes down, and watchdogs have no more appalling lapses to write about.
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No one should count on the Republicans in the Senate, who are more lapdogs than watchdogs when it comes to Trump, to exercise effective oversight in the meanwhile.
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Members of the research community and criminal justice watchdogs became concerned, but what takes place behind the walls of correctional facilities often remains hidden from the public eye.
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EU banking watchdogs had requested an MREL floor but the European Commission ruled that out last week, saying the SRB should set the liability level case by case.
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The Trump administration did own up to something Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) and other budget watchdogs have been saying for years: OCO is a giant slush fund.
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The group, the Campaign for One New York, was criticized by government watchdogs for acting as a "shadow government" of lobbyists and businesses with interests before City Hall.
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But the beefing up of enforcement that's baked into the new regime means there's a better opportunity for DPAs to start to bark and bite like proper watchdogs.
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Conservative legal watchdogs have discovered new emails from Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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Human rights watchdogs, including the U.N. and Belgium's own public equality defender, voiced concerns over an upsurge in complaints of police abuse linked to racism since the attacks.
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Industry watchdogs are lobbying against the banks' efforts and looking to further rein in the industry by banning financial firms' payouts to investors via stock buybacks and dividends.
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Those shifts, including the companies that dominate the industry, help explain the challenges Qualcomm faces from big customers like Apple and Samsung and antitrust watchdogs around the globe.
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But government watchdogs said putting the new language on the website was even worse than the reinterpretation itself, because it may make some appointees more likely to donate.
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The findings underscore what academics and government watchdogs have long complained about U.S. immigration courts: Differences among judges and courts can render the system unfair and even inhumane.
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According to the watchdogs, the state of emergency has led to more than 212,225 searches, the closure of 260 religious sites, and between 280 and 221 house arrests.
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According to the watchdogs, the state of emergency has led to more than 22015,28.3 searches, the closure of 22014 religious sites, and between 350 and 400 house arrests.
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The Treasury did not say who would replace Berner, but his exit gives President Donald Trump another opportunity to shift government watchdogs in a more industry-friendly direction.
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The confirmation of Mr. Bernhardt to his new post coincided with calls from more than a dozen Democrats and government watchdogs for formal investigations into his past conduct.
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The result was a toothless board, internal watchdogs with no authority to investigate top executives and, according to Nissan's new leaders and former employees, an imperious corporate leader.
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Budget watchdogs say that as a rule, despite the nation being in the midst of its second-longest period of economic expansion, state governments are wise to save.
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Steep corporate tax cuts have raised longer-term worries about bloated deficits, and an anti-regulatory stance troubles watchdogs who warn that health and safety risks will increase.
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Ethics watchdogs and the president's critics say the Mississippi tax break would benefit the president, albeit indirectly, because he continues to own the Trump Organization through a trust.
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Arbitration proceedings leave no public record for journalists or legal and consumer watchdogs to follow, making it difficult to know if the regulatory system is working, he contends.
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It believes Broadcom needs to offer a "hell-or-high-water" legal commitment to complete the deal irrespective of divestitures that antitrust watchdogs around the world may require.
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Critics are right that we in the national media are often out of touch with working-class America, and distressingly often, we are lap dogs instead of watchdogs.
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The changes are already prompting outrage among consumer advocates and other financial watchdogs, who warn it will allow a return to the Wild West days on Wall Street.
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"We elected you guys to protect us, to be our watchdogs, and you were not," one shareholder shouted at the board as he was removed from the room.
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But in Albany, even the most avid and earnest of watchdogs seemed skeptical that a second trial for Mr. Silver would mean a second chance on ethics reform.
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The fine — one of the largest regulatory penalties against Facebook — comes days after Dutch and French privacy watchdogs ruled that the company had broken strict data protection rules.
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Labour will de-list firms from the stock exchange that fail to take adequate steps to deal with climate change and encourage financial watchdogs to promote green investments.
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Civil rights watchdogs properly criticized New Jersey for resorting to euphemisms like "disciplinary detention" to mask a practice that remains a reality for far too many state prisoners.
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Trump's decision to forgo releasing his tax returns has incensed Democrats and ethics watchdogs, who accuse the President of hiding his assets that could indicate conflicts of interest.
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It's not uncommon for attorneys general to disagree with inspector general conclusions, and at times they have made those disputes clear in responses appended to their watchdogs' reports.
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Unifying the structure under one agency, rather than handing the responsibility to one of the three existing watchdogs, reflects the growing importance of the issue for the government.
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In June, CNN reported that Chao was receiving criticism from House Democrats and watchdogs who raised questions about whether Chao was using her position to benefit the company.
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Barclays said in April last year it had reprimanded Staley and would cut his bonus as the two financial watchdogs launched a year-long investigation into his actions.
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Trump's continued attacks on the media — and on truth itself — is an attempt to weaken the watchdogs, to grease the skids toward more oligarchy, more authoritarianism, more fascism.
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Indonesia is currently in the run-up to a presidential election set to take place in April, with internet watchdogs flagging the impact of fake news as a concern.
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The EU's banking, markets and insurance watchdogs said in a joint statement on Friday that they have been "made aware of challenges for certain counterparties" the new rule presents.
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Banking watchdogs across Europe have begun checking whether lenders have ties to the massive document leak from Panama that showed how offshore companies are used to stash clients' wealth.
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Whether it attempted to buy a local bank or apply for its own charter, each time the giant was stymied by a consortium of regulators, lobbyists, lawmakers and watchdogs.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union privacy watchdogs will look deeper into the harvesting of personal data from social networks for economic or political purposes following the scandal engulfing Facebook Inc.
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This could be compounded if Trump follows through on his campaign comments about Putin's Russia, a country criticized by watchdogs as an undemocratic human-rights abuser that silences dissenters.
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And over the years the scientists and hydrologists and technicians who help get water to our houses have also become our environmental stewards, our infrastructural watchdogs, our urban visionaries.
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"Our legislation would empower our antitrust watchdogs with new tools to deter monopolization of market power and hold bad actors accountable," Blumenthal said in an emailed statement to Gizmodo.
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But prominent researchers have accused these watchdogs of "methodical terrorism," while aggrieved scientists whose work has been thrown into question have lashed back, accusing their critics of malicious motives.
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The text was expected to include proposals for citizen watchdogs, protections for whistle-blowers and the press, more transparency in government contracts and the sharing of information by prosecutors.
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Clinching the deal is taking longer than planned amid a flurry of deals in the agriculture sector that Syngenta, the world's biggest pesticides maker, said had swamped competition watchdogs.
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Swedbank is the subject of a joint probe by Swedish and Estonian financial watchdogs following a media report linking Swedbank to the Baltic money laundering scandal involving Danske Bank.
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That same study found that EVs make up for the emissions disparity once they hit the road, but corporate minds—and eco-watchdogs—are eager to close the gap.
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Much like Saudi Arabia, the Gulf country has been cited by several watchdogs for funneling money to Middle East extremists, or not doing enough to choke off those flows.
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The answer is in the unpopular, but essential government watchdogs that make up the Inspector General community, which currently exists in an oversight capacity in almost every federal agency.
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It is now clear that Mr. Trump intends to maintain control of his vast business empire despite the bipartisan advice of government watchdogs and the Office of Government Ethics.
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The details: The nonprofit committee chaired by Thomas Barrack Jr. was under pressure by watchdogs to reveal how it spent the $22.8 million it had raised from wealthy donors.
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The Bank of Italy's Panetta said in a speech in January that companies were reluctant to open up to markets and invite scrutiny from shareholders, watchdogs and tax authorities.
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Ethics watchdogs say the president is violating the clause every time his hotels or golf courses receive payments from foreign governments because Trump still owns his stake in them.
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Barclays had said in April last year it had reprimanded Staley and would cut his bonus as the two financial watchdogs launched a year-long investigation into his actions.
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The administration's count of civilian deaths is about half of the lowest estimate from independent watchdogs, which base their estimates largely on press reports and information from local officials.
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Global watchdogs like the Bank for International Settlements and the International Monetary Fund have described these bountiful flows into and out of BlackRock bond E.T.F.s as a liquidity illusion.
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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) is asking federal watchdogs to investigate whether the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) violated federal election law.
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The mere possibility of a live deployment of gene drives has some environmental watchdogs critical of biotech like the ETC Group and Friends of the Earth up in arms.
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Ethics watchdogs have called also raised alarms about Ms. Jones's previous roles at for-profits, including the legal watchdog Democracy Forward, which revealed her lobbying activities to The Times.
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But if congressional authority is needed to arm the Fed with new bailout powers to rescue failing corporations, expect resistance from lawmakers and howls from Wall Street watchdogs. Sen.
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British Columbia's privacy commissioner has yet to comment publicly on the announcement about giving cops access to traffic cameras, but civil liberties watchdogs are eager to hear her reaction.
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Though lauded by campaign finance watchdogs, New Jersey's bill, like campaign finance disclosure laws in other states, has been criticized by conservative and liberal activists as being overly broad.
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These watchdogs have frozen or are rolling back rules introduced following the financial crisis, such as curbs on predatory lenders and the designation of some firms as systemically risky.
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Ombudsmen — government watchdogs established by state legislatures in Alaska, Hawaii, Nebraska, Iowa and Arizona — have no punitive power, so the report's findings do not carry the weight of law.
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The arrangement is likely to come under scrutiny from ethics watchdogs, who have repeatedly criticized the White House for blurring the sometimes fine line between political and official activities.
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Data collected by health trackers is particularly sensitive in the eyes of regulators and antitrust watchdogs have said such information would become a more important part of merger reviews.
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Government watchdogs have been warning for years that underfunded public employee pension programs will create economic havoc in the states and municipalities that have promised benefits they can't afford.
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Instead, Somos Pueblo and other protesters are calling for international and local watchdogs to monitor the upcoming election and ensure there is no fraud by playing an active role.
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The report by Britain's two banking watchdogs, the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), largely blamed HBOS management for the bank's failure.
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"These recommendations would make the watchdogs' jobs harder and prevent them from spotting risks before they balloon out of control," Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio said in a statement.
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Senior watchdogs like Andrea Enria, who chairs the European Central Bank's supervisory board, have for some time voiced support for consolidation to help improve ailing profitability in the sector.
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With democracy watchdogs raising concerns about the credibility of Sunday's election, a court released Karoui on Wednesday evening, allowing him to leave prison before a crowd of cheering supporters.
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Now, with the Privacy Shield under review by Europe's privacy regulators, supporters hope the bill's passage will make the watchdogs more likely to give it their stamp of approval.
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The streaming function of the platform sends the data collected directly to watchdogs, which may help boost transparency in a market increasingly directed by less-regulated non-bank players.
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Financial watchdogs and some cryptocurrency advocates are split on how initial coin offerings should be regulated, and the NASAA investigation was developed as an effort to protect retail investors.
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"Our federal watchdogs responsible for protecting workers and consumers, enforcing labor and product safety laws, and cracking down on anti-competitive practices must wake up," Blumenthal told BuzzFeed News.
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After Mr. Shaub publicly criticized Mr. Trump's plans this month, Mr. Chaffetz accused him of playing politics — prompting Democrats and other watchdogs to come to the ethics monitor's defense.
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Independent watchdogs said Dunlap's involvement raises concerns about whether he improperly influenced EPA's actions on formaldehyde, which is widely used in wood composites, building materials, insulation, fabrics and glue.
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"Businesses will not be able to hide from competitors or regulators or watchdogs," said Mark Johnson, chief executive and co-founder of Descartes Labs, another satellite information start-up.
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And also watching how companies try to take control of their own supply chain and to be transparent about it and let consumers and watchdogs in on that process.
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As CNN's Dan Merica writes, the White House meeting could turn contentious, since the guest list includes video game CEOs on one side and media watchdogs on the other.
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Through a number of acquisitions we made, we bought a company called Good Technology, we bought a company called Ad Hoc, and WatchDogs, so we bought a few companies.
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Bankers and regulators acknowledge that getting all five watchdogs to march in lockstep will be tough and asking some of them to cede their authority will be even tougher.
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Some banks are thinking of complementing or even replacing their licensed subsidiaries with investment firms or branches, which are supervised by national watchdogs or not supervised as banks, she said.
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Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows 10 operating system is still under scrutiny by European Union privacy watchdogs, who say they are still concerned about the privacy settings despite a recently announced change.
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The Chinese banking regulator's newly appointed chief on Thursday brushed aside suggestions that he would spearhead a merger of the country's three financial industry watchdogs, describing the talk as "rumour".
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"Yahoo was invited to provide information on the legal basis and the compatibility with EU law of any such activity," the watchdogs said in a statement regarding the email scanning.
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Shareholder watchdogs Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services urged Boeing investors to vote in favor of a proposal calling to split those roles at the company's annual meeting last month.
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Meanwhile, shares in Germany's Deutsche Bank rose by 8.4 percent after Bloomberg reported that watchdogs would prefer the bank to merge with a European competitor instead of German rival Commerzbank.
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France ordered Microsoft to stop tracking Windows 10 users, and European Union data protection watchdogs warned earlier this year that Microsoft's Windows 10 Creators Update changes don't go far enough.
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It would be more expensive to start new businesses online because of the cost of hiring watchdogs, said Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union.
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If watchdogs, trying to please Xi, try to prop up the market in defiance of genuinely bearish fundamentals, they could lose what credibility they have earned since the last bust.
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His company would rather not have to hire a bunch of lawyers and privacy watchdogs and jump through more hoops every time it wants to roll out a new feature.
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Government watchdogs and reform supporters in the district assailed Ms. Cancel's selection, concerned that she would be no more than a conveniently placed front for Mr. Silver and his allies.
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Right now, we're not seeing a lot of that kind of responsible behavior from the watchdogs in our society entrusted with cutting through the political rhetoric to determine the truth.
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The functionality comes after years of advertising watchdogs and lobbying groups being frustrated about the lack of a clear policy or rules for so-called branded content on the app.
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In the past watchdogs have based their actions on consumer harm, which is hard to prove in the case of the digital giants as their services are free of charge.
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Specifically, this means that these companies need to embrace researchers and watchdogs in good faith instead of freezing them out in order to protect some internal process or embarrassing misstep.
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A 'vertical integration' between two companies operating at different stages of the production chain is normally less worrying for competition watchdogs than a "horizontal" merger boosting a firm's market share.
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At worst, it's creating a fine-tuned machine to chill people into not only buying their surveillance machines, but acting as watchdogs and sending that data right back to headquarters.
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Financial watchdogs from Switzerland and Britain are looking into the arranging of the sovereign borrowing, which was done without consultation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or Mozambique's foreign donors.
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The OCE provided a pathway, not only for watchdogs like Judicial Watch and progressive organizations -- but allowed citizens to seek an inquiry into alleged misconduct of Members, such as bribery.
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"We must keep pushing this administration into the spotlight and demanding that ethics watchdogs hold these individuals accountable and make these decisions regarding rampant conflicts of interest transparent," she added.
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Swedbank is the subject of a joint probe by the Swedish and Baltic financial watchdogs into allegations the bank's Estonian branch was used for money-laundering for over a decade.
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The government's own watchdogs are confirming with hard facts what many people have suspected about civil forfeiture all along: that it's being used against people who have done nothing wrong.
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CNN has reported that Pruitt is the focus of nearly a dozen probes by ethics watchdogs, federal auditors and congressional committees looking into his actions as head of the agency.
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Debt doesn't matter to Trump Budget watchdogs say the new budget shows Trump doesn't really care about a deficit that has ballooned under his administration's tax cuts and increased spending.
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A former military officer, Bolsonaro's victory raised concerns among international watchdogs after he praised Brazil's old military dictatorship and made incendiary comments about women and members of the LGBTQ community.
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It set off alarm bells among government watchdogs, FEMA and other parts of the Trump administration, which in recent days was forced to distance itself from the increasingly controversial bid.
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Press freedom watchdogs also raised red flags, while the Washington Post, which has regularly featured Khashoggi's writing since last year, published a blank space where his column would normally appear.
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ZURICH, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Swiss watchdogs are looking into whether local banks handled billions of euros that may have moved to Switzerland through the Estonian branch of Denmark's Danske Bank.
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department took steps Tuesday to restore the access of some government watchdogs to sensitive internal records, but officials called on Congress to enact a permanent, wider fix.
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In the meantime, experts are expecting more of the same as the midterm season ramps up and government watchdogs, voters and reporters tracking money in politics are stretched increasingly thin.
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Strict local standards are vital too for companies with flagship properties back home in Nevada: Las Vegas' wary watchdogs take a dim view of operators dabbling in more lax jurisdictions.
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We all benefit from the digging, dedication and insight of media watchdogs like Brian Stelter, Howard Kurtz, Jay Rosen and Richard Prince, along with the team at Columbia Journalism Review.
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But the agency's food safety program recently come under close scrutiny by federal watchdogs for failing to protect public health with these much-needed additional inspections mandated by federal law.
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Congress approved the program following a "systemic," nationwide scandal in which government watchdogs found that VA officials were manipulating data on how long veterans were waiting for a medical appointment.
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The number comes from 473 strikes that took place between Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009 and the end of 2015, and it is much lower than estimates from independent watchdogs.
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Consumer watchdogs are concerned that the association health plans will siphon off younger and healthier workers, leaving older and sicker Americans in the Obamacare exchanges for individuals and small firms.
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In our country, the intelligence, counterintelligence and law enforcement agencies act with congressional oversight, judicial review and a free press acting as watchdogs in a system of checks and balances.
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Privacy and security watchdogs have repeatedly raised concerns with connected devices, and people have proven it&aposs possible to hack popular gadgets like Amazon them with lasers and malicious apps.
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Sexual harassment permeates the economy — it makes up an enormous share of complaints to workplace watchdogs and crops up in both low-wage restaurant jobs and high-paid tech offices.
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Xi has been characterized as the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, and human-rights watchdogs have warned his rule has been typified by "increasing repression" on multiple fronts.
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U.S. lawmakers and international watchdogs have noted that under Orbán, Hungarian elections have become less competitive, press freedom has declined and the prime minister has exerted control over the judiciary.
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Amazon, which announces earnings Thursday, has faced similarly harsh criticism to Facebook over its Rekognition facial recognition API and other technologies that some privacy watchdogs have deemed intrusive, including Alexa.
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Trump maintains ownership of his global business empire, though he has handed control to his two oldest sons, an arrangement that ethics watchdogs say does not prevent conflicts of interest.
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Press watchdogs warn that media freedom declined over the past year, which saw President Nicolas Maduro win a fresh six-year term in May at elections boycotted by the opposition.
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Meanwhile, all those worried watchdogs do have a point about the impact of the routine: An entire generation of comedians and writers cite him as an inspiration for their careers.
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Facebook has disputed the findings and refused to implement the watchdogs' recommendations — including refusing to voluntarily submit to audits of its privacy policies and practices over the next five years.
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President Trump has proposed slashing funds for Inspector General offices — nonpartisan government watchdogs — at five different agencies, according to a new report released on Wednesday by Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill.
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Veterans of the 2008 bank bailout say, however, that the effectiveness of that oversight will only be as strong as the chosen watchdogs and how much power they really have.
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Journalists too often acted as lap dogs, not watchdogs — and today I fear that we may be so busy chasing the latest shiny object that we miss an abyss ahead.
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A new coalition of budget watchdogs tell Whispers that they plan to unveil a new award today that will reward the best and the brightest of the green eyeshade crowd.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government watchdogs rapped two members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet on Monday over their spending last year, adding pressure on an administration already roiled by ethics complaints.
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Shift from foreign to domestic: Influence from overseas, particularly Russia, has remained a central concern for government watchdogs — but misinformation is coming from other countries and inside the U.S., too.
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The settlement is an attempt by the Fed to impress upon banks that their boards of directors should be vigorous, independent watchdogs — and if they fail, there will be consequences.
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In London, watchdogs are now pushing back, and the Silicon Valley invader is finally seeking permission to continue operating, rather than asking for after-the-fact forgiveness for breaking rules.
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Internal watchdogs have launched at least nine audits, reviews or investigations across several Cabinet agencies, and stories about first-class travel, expensive office furniture, and internal strife have become commonplace.
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Consumer watchdogs have found numerous complaints from customers upset that between the cost of the panels, and their electric bill, they were actually spending more money every month on electricity.
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Internal watchdogs have launched at least nine audits, reviews or investigations across several Cabinet agencies, and stories about first-class travel, expensive office furniture and internal strife have become commonplace.
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But campaign watchdogs noted that election rules prohibit military members from appearing in partisan messaging, and the campaign replaced the ad with a new version that doesn't include that footage.
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In Thailand, millions of undocumented workers from poorer countries like Myanmar and Cambodia are vulnerable to abuse, environmental watchdogs say, adding that the need for such laborers will only intensify.
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But some housing groups and budget watchdogs said that the new version of the program will be more expensive than past versions and that it was overly generous to developers.
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Budget watchdogs warn that the winner of the 2020 presidential election won't have much budget headroom to work with, constraining their ability to launch new programs and fulfill campaign promises.
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Government watchdogs and journalists have also zeroed in on two high-paying positions that were allegedly created for Ms. Campion in the offices of a party colleague, Senator Matt Canavan.
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Goop, the lifestyle brand owned by actress Gwyneth Paltrow, has been reported to the U.K.'s trading standards and advertising watchdogs over allegations that it makes misleading claims about its products.
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Watchdogs have sounded this alarm for years, but Facebook has always made a tweak here or there when it gets called out—as if its previous sins would be automatically absolved.
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Aside from this new lawsuit, a coalition of ethic watchdogs escalated their concerns on Wednesday, calling on US Attorney Preet Bharara in the Southern District of New York to investigate Trump.
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Microsoft– The company's Windows 10 operating system is still under scrutiny by European Union privacy watchdogs, who say they are still concerned about the privacy settings despite a recently announced change.
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The reforms by his ruling nationalists have been criticized by civil society campaigners, international democracy watchdogs, the EU and opposition parties in Poland for subjecting the courts to more government control.
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As Asia's largest economy continues a push to reform its financial system and encourage greater stability ahead of the National People's Congress in March, financial watchdogs have turned to flowery language.
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Since the financial crisis watchdogs around the world have been working via the G20 group of leading economies to increase cooperation between regulators following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
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" The spokesperson added, "The op-ed makes an argument that nonpartisan government watchdogs would make, arguing in favor of a law that would prohibit self-dealing by those with government connections.
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North Carolina's state treasurer was appointed to two corporate boards while holding public office, a move that watchdogs said could be a "breathtaking" conflict of interest, the International Business Times reports.
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Although Washington has long served as a check on the power of Wall Street and other profitable industries, lawmakers have tended to act as cheerleaders for technology companies rather than watchdogs.
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Britain's Financial Conduct Authority is widely seen as among the most active financial watchdogs, launching a special unit more than two years ago to assist young companies in the fintech sector.
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Just this weekend, President Trump invited Duterte to the White House, setting off alarm bells for exhausted watchdogs who can barely keep up with the most ethically dubious administration in decades.
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Regulators appointed a so-called "Skilled Person" in September 2015, a process that brings in independent experts to assess a business when watchdogs suspect a firm has governance or other weaknesses.
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At-will political staffers are not hired transparently—a source of consternation for government watchdogs who monitor their rising salaries, connections to landed interests, and the patterns of their political donations.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain's border force is missing thousands of modern slavery victims and has prosecuted only two human traffickers since 2014, two official watchdogs said in report on Thursday.
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After being bashed by parents, politicians, and consumer watchdogs for jacking prices up 500% over a decade, Mylan has offered more generous coupons and introduced a generic EpiPen in recent months.
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The communication says "more integrated supervision" by EU watchdogs and more responsibilities for the European Central Bank could also help with the bloc's "urgent" task of building a deeper capital market.
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The country's data watchdogs ruled in 2017 that a partnership DeepMind struck with the NHS was illegal, as individuals hadn't been properly informed about how their medical data would be used.
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The definitions are highly indeterminate, and broad interpretations by watchdogs of phrases like "likely to cause overall harm" or "internationally accepted norms" may result in Google's own rules being unexpectedly prohibitive.
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After Trump became president-elect in 2016, ethics watchdogs called for the billionaire real estate tycoon to step down from leading the Trump Organization and put his stake into a trust.
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On September 19, 2016, an airstrike by either Russian or Assad forces killed 10 civilians and destroyed lifesaving medical supplies, prompting strong criticism from human rights watchdogs and the United Nations.
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However, euro zone banking watchdogs on Thursday said banks planning mergers should make sure they could be wound down in a crisis to avoid taxpayers having to pay for any bailout.
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A glowing description of President Donald Trump's Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago — calling it the "winter White House" — was posted on State Department websites, bringing criticism from ethics watchdogs and Democrats.
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It has faced criticism from policymakers and financial watchdogs at home and abroad who fear widespread adoption of the digital currency by Facebook's 2.38 billion users could upend the financial system.
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The fine, though relatively small, indicates China's anti-trust watchdogs may be turning attention towards medicines, a potential headache for domestic and international firms targeting the world's second-largest pharmaceutical market.
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Political sources said this month the commission might approve various recommendations, including that the Bank of Italy be given more investigative powers and that market watchdogs should share information more freely.
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Ethics watchdogs raised concerns about the practice, noting that it amounts to a conflict of interest and is considered a gift if the discount is not available to all government employees.
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SOCAR's purchase of a 66 percent stake in DESFA, penned in 2013, had hit snags when European Union competition watchdogs ordered it to dispose a 17 percent stake in the operator.
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Barring active congressional intervention, this would cut trillions from the federal budget over time, and liberal budget watchdogs like the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities quite correctly opposed the idea.
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Trump has faced scrutiny since taking office for his far-reaching business dealings, with critics and ethics watchdogs raising concerns that his business interests could conflict with his responsibilities as president.
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