Jonathan Stempel reports: Idaho, which has a near-total ban on abortion, agreed not to prosecute or take away licenses of doctors who refer patients out of state to obtain the procedure, under a consent decree approved by a federal judge on Thursday. The decree prevents Idaho’s Republican Attorney General Raul Labrador and county prosecutors from…
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Uganda orders Google to register as a data-controller within 30 days after landmark privacy ruling
The Fintech Association of Kenya announced an important ruling in Uganda: Uganda’s Personal Data Protection Office (PDPO) has ruled that Google LLC is a data controller/collector subject to the country’s Data Protection and Privacy Act. In a 18 July 2025 decision, the regulator declared Google in breach for operating without PDPO registration and for transferring Ugandans’ data abroad “without demonstrating adequate…
Texas Enacts Electronic Health Record Data Localization Law
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently signed into law S.B. 1188, a bill that regulates the security and storage of electronic health record data and the deployment of artificial intelligence (“AI”) in the health care context. The law creates a data localization requirement, obligating covered entities to physically maintain electronic health records in…
Upstate NY county clerk again refuses to enforce Texas abortion judgment
The Associated Press reports: A county clerk in New York on Monday again refused to file a more than $100,000 civil judgment from Texas against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a Dallas-area woman. New York is among eight states with shield laws that protect providers from other states’ reach. Abortion opponents claim the laws violate a…