Dan Zakreski reports: A Saskatoon judge is defending how the province’s privacy commissioner handled a case that began when six doctors inappropriately accessed electronic health records of Humboldt Broncos players involved in a fatal bus crash last April. Sixteen people were killed and 13 were injured in the crash between the junior hockey team’s bus…
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Court Denies EFF Effort to Obtain Classified Significant Surveillance Court Opinions
Aaron Mackey writes: A federal court’s ruling earlier this week has blunted a key provision of the surveillance reform law that required the government to be more transparent about legal decisions made by the United States secret surveillance court. After Edward Snowden revealed the government’s ongoing mass collection of Americans’ telephone phone records in 2013,…
Appeals Court Refuses to Find Dating App Liable in Abuse Case
From EPIC.org: A federal appellate court has refused to find a dating app liable for failing to remove a false profile that enabled abusive conduct. EPIC filed an amicus brief in Herrick v. Grindr, arguing that the law Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was intended to “encourage internet service providers to police their…
DEA says AT&T still provides access to billions of phone records
Zack Whittaker reports: A program that allows drug agents to obtain a pool of billions of call records from AT&T is “still active,” according to a watchdog report. The report, published Thursday by the Justice Department inspector general, confirmed the program — named in the report only as Project C — continues to provide access…