Sentences with phrase «public outcry about»

Over the weekend, we learned that Cambridge Analytica collected data from some 50 million Facebook users without their consent back in 2015, a revelation that has led to a public outcry about Facebook's data policies, a tanking stock price and fear of increased regulation.

The move comes after the province has introduced changes to penalties doctors face if they are found to be sexually abusing patients, after public outcry about the circumstances of the case.

The move comes after the province introduced changes to penalties doctors face if they are found to be sexually abusing patients, after public outcry about the circumstances of the case.

In an attempt to avoid the public outcry about their operations, Massey refused to divulge the location or date of their shareholder meeting until the last moment.

A public outcry about the issue was in part responsible for Brightsource cancelling plans to build another tower complex in California.

So if the Government is unwilling to consider a review of the Code of Practice but needs to assuage public outcry about the LDH, the only strategic recourse was conduct an audit and not an investigation.

A huge public outcry about the «hidden» permeate in milk has recently led many companies to declare their product «permeate - free».

We are concerned that a public outcry about such an ethical breach could hinder a promising area of therapeutic development,» write Lanphier and his colleagues, who include Fyodor Urnov, a pioneer in gene - editing techniques and scientist at Sangamo BioSciences in Richmond, California.

«Unfortunately, if there is no public outcry about this dangerous situation, the NRC will continue to bend to the industry's wishes.»

«It appears that Governor Cuomo has heard the public outcry about the need to fully assess and address public health impacts of fracking, but based on the administration's most recent statement, people remain in the dark about what is really happening.

I assume that the limited public outcry about their introduction is because the Americans use them - and obviously any constitutional arrangement the Americans use must be okay.

The biggest food manufacturers in the world are also putting aside corn ingredients based on the public outcry about GMO - infestation of this crop.

Not exact matches

News about the data breach sparked a public outcry and prompted many of Facebook's 2.1 billion users to reevaluate how they use the massive social media platform, and whether the company should be trusted with so much personal information.

Ko Ni had been a vocal advocate for the law, and its proposal came about after a public outcry over the damaging impacts of hate speech online.

So while the hypocrisy you point out is valid and it makes me angry all over again about the ouster of this team's architect, I'm cautious in embracing a public outcry against it.

It observed that following public outcry that the Presidency should hand the former officials to the EFCC for prosecution after their sacking, «spokesmen of the administration have been speaking in forked tongues about Presidency not teleguiding the anti-graft war and that the agency would exercise its discretion.»

Following an outcry by Queens and city legislators about widespread voting problems during Primary Day, the city Board of Elections said it is taking extra precautions to educate the public about the new voting machines before the Nov. 2 election.

Silver's shifting position «fueled creeping doubts about the viability of the center, which faces a raft of obstacles, like paltry fund - raising, on top of the public outcry,» writes Michael Barbaro.

Amid the outcry over the agents» visit, the city and the federal government issued contradictory accounts about what happened at Public School 58, also known as the School of Heroes, on Thursday.

«It's shocking that there hasn't been more outcry over this harmful action given the governor's public statements about improving the quality of care in this field.»

But while to this point there has not been a new public outcry at the New York Legislature, female lawmakers say that the Weinstein scandal and its fallout have struck a chord and sparked private conversations about their early experiences in Albany and how they can best aid young female staff aides and legislators.

The public outcry over Carl Paladino's published remarks about the Obamas is growing, with calls for a boycott against his businesses and a renewed call for his ouster from the Buffalo School Board.

Both incidents involved home secretaries responding to a public / tabloid outcry about a service failure by despatching a senior officials, in circumstances that led to allegations of scapegoating.

Mayor Bloomberg never worried about public outcry as embarked on his sweeping public health crusades.

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and about public outcry when more youngsters (and schools) are found wanting.

In response to public outcry over its call for a charter moratorium, the NAACP is on a listening tour across the country to learn more about charter schools.

When the inevitable problems occur with the SBAC and PARCC test administrations this year, the public outcry will be about how the technology infrastructure failed or how the tests were taking too much valuable time away from real instruction.

In the 1800s, popular portrayal of Bloodhounds as bloodthirsty killers provoked public outcry, fear, and public conversations similar to the ones being held today about pit bulls.

It is a legislature's desire to do something about a situation creating public outcry.

Things were really quiet for about a year or so after the initial outcry, and when the game was being shown to the public again it had undergone a transformation.

Also interestingly my parents (who are both psychologists) were always ok with me playing Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat and their ilk, and disregarded some of the public reactionary outcries at the time, but again, talking with them about it in later life, it was very much that they believed we were mature enough at the time to handle them — and the cartoonish violence was actually really easy for us to distinguish between anything real.

It looks as if the Coast Guard has been given direct orders to protect BP's PR interests above safety concerns, over air and water quality, above the outcries of local governments in need of aid, and (worst of all) above the need for the American public to be informed about what is really going on in the Gulf.

Judges must stop worrying about public outcries if they remove a child from the care of a vicious programming parent who is showing their hostility toward the former partner.