A California federal judge on Thursday said he’d initially OK Meta’s $37.5 million deal to resolve claims it tracked 70 million users’ locations but pressed for a cy pres-only distribution, saying “no one” will submit a claim for “50 cents” and his approval is “the dictionary definition of ‘preliminary.’” Read more at Law360 (paywalled).
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Idaho hospital will stop delivering babies as doctors flee state due to abortion ban
This is a healthcare crisis that politicians have caused by their attempts to impose their will and beliefs on women. Do members of the Supreme Court who overturned Roe feel accountable at all, or do they tell themselves this is the states’ doing and the states have the right to do this? Gloria Oladipo reports:…
Iowa Passes Comprehensive Privacy Statute
Lindsey Tonsager, Jayne Ponder, Alexandra Scott, and Jorge Ortiz of Covington & Burling write: On March 15th, the Iowa legislature passed S.F. 262 (the “ICDPA”), making it the sixth U.S. state to pass a comprehensive state privacy statute. The Iowa statute most closely resembles the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”), though it also shares some similarities with…
Private records of some Canberra Health Services patients ‘deliberately’ sent to industrial partner
Niki Burnside reports: Some Canberra Health Services (CHS) patients’ records have been emailed to people outside of the organisation, in what has been described as a “serious breach of privacy”. In an all-staff email, CHS chief executive Dave Peffer said the records had been sent by a small number of staff to multiple people within…