From Papers, Please!: The highest court of the European Union ruled today that an EU mandate for dragnet surveillance of travelers through government access to airline reservations might be permissible under EU law — but only under conditions that governments of EU member countries, and the US government, may be unable or unwilling to meet. In 2016, the EU enacted…
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What is Meta Pixel, the code detected on health system websites in NC and beyond?
Nadia Bey reports: Four of North Carolina’s largest health care providers sent patient information to Facebook through a tool called Meta Pixel, a recent news report revealed, raising concerns about privacy breaches. On Friday, a class action complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco alleged a health data breach. It accuses Meta, Facebook’s owner,…
Tor Ekeland sues NYC cops after arrest for destroying son’s laptop
Kathianne Boniello reports: A prominent Brooklyn criminal-defense attorney was busted for breaking his son’s gaming laptop, but claimed it was cops who were wrong for “assaulting” his parental rights. Tor Ekeland, 52, says his constitutional and civil rights were violated when two detectives charged him with criminal mischief for the January 2021 incident, in which…
She confided in a doctor about her depression. The next thing she knew, the government took away her driver’s licence
Robert Cribb, Declan Keogh of the Investigative Journalism Bureau, Max Binks-Collier, and Danielle Orr report: During an intense flare-up of her depression, Karysa Mackay checked into a Thunder Bay hospital for crisis care. Three days later, Mackay had her licence suspended after a psychiatrist she doesn’t recall ever meeting reported her to the Ministry of…