Mike Maharrey writes: Today, New Hampshire voters said “yes” to privacy by a huge margin, and set the stage to undermine the federal surveillance state. The passage of Question 2 sets a constitutional foundation to protect privacy rights in New Hampshire by adding the following language to Article II of the New Hampshire state constitution. “An…
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Is a Privacy Violation an “Injury”?
Will Baude writes: Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in an interesting and important class action case, Frank v. Gaos, about when lawyers can agree to settle a case on behalf of a class action by giving all of the money to a charity instead of the class. Today, however, the Supreme Court…
Motel 6 Agrees To Pay Millions After Giving Guest Lists To Immigration Authorities
Camila Domonoske reports: The hotel chain Motel 6 has agreed to pay $7.6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit after multiple Motel 6 locations gave guest lists to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Sharing those lists led to arrests and deportations of an as-yet-unknown number of hotel guests. The settlement deal was tentatively reached in…
UK data watchdog fines Arron Banks’ insurance firm and Leave.EU campaign £135,000
Jedidajah Otte reports: Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman behind the Leave.EU campaign, was fined a total of £135,000 by the UK’s data watchdog today. Bank’s Leave.EU Brexit campaign and his company Eldon Insurance (trading as Go Skippy) were each fined £60,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for serious breaches of the Privacy and Electronic…