Isaiah Poritz reports: Meta Platforms Inc. categorically denied that it ever received the sensitive menstrual health data of millions of women using the popular period tracking app Flo Health Inc. on the first day of a sweeping privacy trial in San Francisco. Attorneys for the social media giant told the eight person jury the class action’s…
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Wikipedia seeks to shield contributors from UK law targeting online anonymity
Cain Burdeau reports: Wikipedia sued the British government on Tuesday, arguing a law designed to protect people from online trolls and anonymous attacks will end up hurting the free digital encyclopedia’s collaborators, many of whom wish to remain anonymous. Wikipedia said it resorted to legal action after failing to convince the British government to amend…
Meta investors, Zuckerberg reach settlement to end $8 billion trial over Facebook privacy violations
In 2019, the Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $5 billion after finding that it failed to comply with a 2012 agreement with the FTC to protect users’ data. In the current lawsuit, which followed the Cambridge Analytica breach, Meta was not a defendant: the plaintiffs wanted the directors to pay out of their own pockets. …
Upstate NY county clerk again refuses to enforce Texas abortion judgment
The Associated Press reports: A county clerk in New York on Monday again refused to file a more than $100,000 civil judgment from Texas against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a Dallas-area woman. New York is among eight states with shield laws that protect providers from other states’ reach. Abortion opponents claim the laws violate a…