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Privacy Laws Are Changing: Make Sure Your Nonprofit Is Ready

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These laws have common requirements similar to other countries’ privacy laws, like the European and United Kingdom GDPR, with which you may already be familiar. In response, several states are implementing new privacy laws which may affect how your organization collects, uses, and stores personal data.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. Moreover, earlier this year we began offering books in MP3 format. This is a most exciting development: it means that anyone with a cheap MP3 player or a phone that plays MP3s can have access to our books.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. The next 10X opportunity is to go global, by ramping up Bookshare International to serve the millions of people with print disabilities worldwide.

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