Allie Reed reports: Maine’s privacy law protecting voters’ personal information is in question after a panel of First Circuit judges suggested a conservative election law firm has standing to sue the secretary of state. The Public Interest Legal Foundation is suing Maine over its law preventing people who obtain personal information from its central voter registration system…
Category: Court
Appeals court lifts partial block on Idaho abortion ban
Josh Gerstein reports: A federal appeals court has lifted a lower court ruling that prevented the State of Idaho from enforcing aspects of its near-total ban on abortion. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order Thursday granting Idaho officials’ request to put the injunction against the law on hold while the state appeals the lower…
Security researcher warns of chilling effect after feds search phone at airport
Zack Whittaker reports: U.S. security researcher is warning of a chilling effect after he was detained on arrival at a U.S. airport, his phone was searched, and was ordered to testify to a grand jury, only to have prosecutors reverse course and drop the investigation later. On Wednesday, Sam Curry, a security engineer at blockchain technology…
Meta, Google, H&R Block accused of coordinated plan to scrape taxpayer data
Natalie Hanson reports: Taxpayers slapped Meta, Google and H&R Block with a sprawling RICO class action Wednesday, claiming that a “shocking breach” coordinated by the companies resulted in scraping taxpayers’ private information for profit. In a 49-page complaint, the plaintiffs say the international firm H&R Block used customers’ private income and financial records to help train…