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 A Silicon Valley start-up has created technology that can instantly modify call centre employees' accents. According to Sanas, a firm, their technology might eliminate discrimination based on accent and lessen racial abuse directed at employees. However, other detractors claim it is a step in the wrong direction and that language variety should be praised. the agents, many of whom are from the global south, "sound white," according to the news outlet SFGATE. According to reports, Sanas has raised $32 million in funding since June 2022. The company calls its technology an accent translation tool. On its website, a section called "Demo" offers visitors the chance to "hear the magic" by playing a recording of someone reading a call centre script with what appears to be a South Asian accent before clicking a slider button that changes the speech into an American accent that has a slightly robotic quality. The start-up was charged by SFGATE with trying to ...

 This week, Twitter's legal team served Halo Privacy Inc. of Lynnwood, Washington with a subpoena in order to obtain documents and information for the company's lawsuit against Elon Musk over the latter's effort to revoke their $44 billion acquisition deal. The subpoena and related exhibits, which GeekWire obtained from public court records in King County Superior Court in Seattle, ask Halo Privacy for communications and other records pertaining to Twitter bots, spam, or fake accounts, as well as any related analyses performed by the company based in the Seattle area. Musk is trying to get his agreement to buy the San Francisco-based firm back by contesting Twitter's revelations concerning bots and false accounts. Twitter's subpoena to Halo Privacy, among other things, asks for papers and information regarding any contract, engagement, or arrangement between the business and Musk, his advisers, or data scientists. The 2015-founded Halo Privacy does not seem to have ...

  The Public Interest Technology Summer Fellowship (PIT-SF) programme, run by Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy, provided students with the chance to gain knowledge of how local, state, and federal governments operate for the third summer in a row. The group of students—five from Princeton and 14 from other schools —worked for organisations like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Iowa Attorney General's Office for around eight weeks. The fellows were invited to present their experiences at Princeton in August. The seminars were attended by about twenty people, including fellows from the 2020 and 2021 cohorts who were unable to visit the campus during the first two years of PIT-SF due to COVID restrictions. PIT-SF focuses on rising juniors and seniors who attend a school in the Public Interest Technology University Network and are interested in working on policy at the federal, state, or municipal level o...