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Davisson

American  
[dey-vuh-suhn] / ˈdeɪ və sən /

noun

  1. Clinton Joseph, 1881–1958, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1937.


Davisson British  
/ ˈdeɪvɪsən /

noun

  1. Clinton Joseph. 1881–1958, US physicist, noted for his discovery of electron diffraction; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1937

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John Davisson, director of litigation at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the concern reflects the competing interests over voter data – a need to protect voter rolls from cybersecurity attacks against the desire to make them accessible so elections are transparent.

From Washington Times

Dr. Laura Davisson estimates that less than 30% of her patients with insurance through an employer or an individual plan have obesity medicine coverage.

From Seattle Times

Davisson directs a weight-loss program in West Virginia, a state that consistently ranks as having one of the highest obesity rates in the country.

From Seattle Times

“The face of these terms of service does now assure the user that Zoom is not going to use their customer content for the purpose of training artificial intelligence models without their consent,” John Davisson, director of litigation and senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, told The Associated Press.

From Seattle Times

With this language, Davisson said that using such data to train AI without a user consenting would now constitute a violation of the terms on Zoom’s part, opening the company up to litigation.

From Seattle Times