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Washington Senate Passes Automatic Voter Registration

During a Saturday session, the Washington State Senate overwhelmingly passed Senate Bill E3SSB 6353 which provides for automatic voter registration in Washington State.

Washington joins other Cascadian states such as Oregon in passing automatic voter registration, which was signed into law by Oregon Governor Kate Brown in 2015.

Automatic voter registration will increase the opportunity to register and vote without endangering the security of the election process.”

In Washington State, jury duty is tied to having a drivers license or state ID card, rather than voter registration.

Automatic voter registration would only affect legal residents of Washington State.

Oregon was the first state in the United States to pass automatic voter registration.

States that have introduced automatic voter registration in 2018 currently are Washington, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida, Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey. »

Equifax says more private data was stolen in 2017 breach than first revealed

Authored by zdnet.com

In September, the Atlanta, GA-based credit giant revealed a huge data breach, including names, social security numbers, birth dates, home addresses, and in some cases driver's license numbers.

But documents seen by members of the Senate Banking Committee suggest the types of data stolen were wider than the company first reported.

Under the legislation, Equifax would have to pay billions in damages for its 2017 breach. »

Report: Equifax Lost Even More Information on Consumers Than It Told the Public

Authored by gizmodo.com

According to the Wall Street Journal, additional information that Equifax may have lost includes tax identification numbers (which the Internal Revenue Service sometimes assigns in lieu of an SSN) and email addresses.

An Equifax spokeswoman told the Journal the company complied with regulatory requirements and that they didn’t consider the “insignificant” number of email addresses lost to be sensitive because they’re often publicly accessible.

Equifax spokesperson Meredith Griffanti told CNNMoney Friday that the original list of vulnerable personal information was never intended to represent the full list of potentiality exposed information. »

NBC's Opening Ceremony Broadcast Edited Out 23 Minutes Of The Event, So Here's What You Missed

Authored by screengrabber.deadspin.com

Here’s a breakdown of what was excised; a sped-up video of every second that NBC missed is up above.

The introduction of the U.S. delegation, which in real life took 62 seconds but which appeared on American television to take more than seven minutes.

(They looped parts, which is why you heard the same portion of Psy’s “Gangnam Style” over and over again. »

OxyContin maker will stop marketing opioid products to doctors amid scrutiny

Authored by thehill.com

The maker of the painkiller OxyContin will stop actively marketing its opioid products to doctors.

Purdue Pharmaceuticals announced that it would cut its sales staff by more than half and would stop sending sales representatives to doctor's offices to discuss opioid products.

Purdue has denied the allegations, noting that its products are approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and that they account for only a small portion of all opioid prescriptions. »