Nate Raymond reports: A federal judge in Texas late Tuesday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing in the Republican-led state new guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions to women regardless of state bans on the procedure. U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix in Lubbock agreed with Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that the…
Category: Laws
Immigration Activists Say LexisNexis Sells Personal Data to ICE
Samantha Hawkins reports: LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. collects personal information from consumers and sells it to corporations, law enforcement, and government agencies without their consent, according to a complaint filed by immigration activists in an Illinois circuit court Tuesday. The activists claim LexisNexis’ practice of selling personal data through the online platform Accurint violates the privacy…
State Privacy Laws Will Spur Action Against Dark Patterns
Alyssa Boyle reports: We’re about to see a lot more enforcement against dark patterns from the Federal Trade Commission and on a state level. Dark patterns involve using manipulative or ambiguous language that pushes people to take an action they either don’t understand or wouldn’t normally take, such as sharing their data or agreeing to…
New US Privacy Law May Give Telecoms Free Pass on $200 Million Fines
Joseph Cox reports: The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), a new federal privacy bill that has actually a chance of becoming law, is designed to introduce new privacy protections for Americans. But it may also have the side effect of wiping out $200 million worth of fines proposed against some of the country’s biggest telecommunications companies as part…