Clare Baldwin and Kirsty Needham report: Health regulators in five countries are examining a prenatal test that collects the DNA of women and fetuses for research, while some doctors that promoted it and clinics that sell it say they were unaware the company that produces it also conducts research with the Chinese military. The test,…
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AU: ‘Breach of trust’: Police using QR check-in data to solve crimes
Anthony Galloway reports: The nation’s privacy watchdog has called for police forces to be banned from accessing information from QR code check-in applications after law enforcement agencies have sought to use the contact-tracing data on at least six occasions to solve unrelated crimes. There are also growing calls from backbench MPs and civil liberties groups…
NC: Charters call health director’s actions ‘inappropriate’ after requesting student records amid Covid outbreak
Johanna F. Still reports: After deputies served “control measure orders” at two charter schools in Brunswick County, the schools’ leadership penned a letter to the board of commissioners this week to alert them of “inappropriate and precipitous” actions taken by the county health director. Last month county health director Cris Harrelson authorized two health orders…
A judge asked a mother if she got the covid vaccine. She said no, and he revoked custody of her son.
Jaclyn Peiser reports on what may be a first: When Rebecca Firlit joined a virtual court hearing with her ex-husband earlier this month, the Chicago mother expected the proceedings to focus on child support. To her surprise, the judge started by asking her whether she had been vaccinated She replied that she had not been…