Congress Wants To Allow Foreign Police Access To U.S. Social Media Government Data
Privacy advocates, legal scholars and Richard Downing, the deputy assistant Attorney General, took part in a panel discussion outlining a legislative proposal that allows foreign police access to U.S. social media data. These new rules would streamline the process foreign police agencies must go through to get social media data from U.S. companies. Panelists looked at the pros and cons of the proposed legislation.
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The largest cloning factory in the world, being built in Tianjin, China by the Boyalife Group, is aiming for one million cloned cows by 2020. You may soon have the option to eat cloned steak. Chief executive Xu Xiaochun claims that while the cloning of humans is feasible, the company is holding off “for fear of public reaction.”
For $100,000, you can even have your pet cloned in South Korea. But many see cloning as a step too far in manipulating life. If you can clone a sheep, what’s to stop anyone from cloning a human? Some say it’s already possible to do so.
Genome editing, or genome editing with engineered nucleases (GEEN) is a type of genetic engineering in which DNA is inserted, deleted or replaced in the genome of a living organism using engineered nucleases, or "molecular scissors.".