Updated: This is the type of opinion that I thought we might only see from an EU court, but apparently it is not the first time this has happened in Australia. Karen Percy reports: Google has been ordered to pay $40,000 in damages to a Melbourne lawyer after a Supreme Court of Victoria ruling found…
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Texas Still Won’t Say Which Nursing Homes Have COVID-19 Cases. Families Are Demanding Answers.
by Lomi Kriel, Vianna Davila, ProPublica, and Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune. This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. As elderly and vulnerable citizens continue to die from COVID-19 in closed-off long-term…
Hearing Tuesday: EFF, ACLU, and Cybersecurity Expert Ask Court to Unseal Ruling Denying DOJ Effort to Break Encryption
Seattle, Washington—On Tuesday, April 28, at 9 am, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Stanford cybersecurity scholar Riana Pfefferkorn will ask a federal appeals court to embrace the public’s First Amendment right to access judicial records and unseal a lower court’s ruling denying a government effort to force Facebook to break the…
Judge Warns Facebook in Approving Record $5B Fine for Alleged Privacy Violations
And in other Faceb00k privacy litigation this week, Jacqueline Thomsen reports: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., signed off on a record $5 billion fine imposed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Facebook for allegedly violating federal law and a previous order with its privacy practices. In an opinion issued Thursday night, U.S. District Judge Timothy…