Charles Meggenson reports: All 15 Republican state representatives have taken a stand against a bill they say is designed to usurp parental authority. House Bill 400, sponsored by Rep. Krista Griffith, D-Fairfax, would allow dependents on insurance policies – adults and children – to receive “confidential sensitive health care services” without notifying the policyholder. Read…
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Bipartisan draft bill breaks stalemate on federal data privacy negotiations
Rebecca Kern reports: Congress has tried and failed for decades to pass a law to protect Americans’ data privacy. A bipartisan draft bill released today by key Congressional leaders suggests lawmakers are finally close to making it happen. If it becomes law, the “American Data Privacy and Protection Act,” as the bill is called, would…
Oakland Activist Sues to Hold Postal Officers Accountable for Illegal Search and Seizure of his Mail
J. Justin Wilson writes: Today, an Oakland small business owner and activist partnered with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to sue U.S. Postal Service (USPS) officials for illegally stopping, seizing and searching a set of four ordinary boxes containing thousands of Covid-19 face masks bearing political messages in June 2020. The masks belonged to René…
A European Country Helped the FBI Intercept Anom Messages, But It Wants to Remain Hidden
Joseph Cox reports: During Operation Trojan Shield, in which the FBI secretly managed an encrypted phone company called Anom in order to spy on organized crime syndicates on a global scale, the FBI enlisted the help of an unknown third country to collect the messages from backdoored Anom devices. That country obtained court orders under its own…