Marissa Sarnoff reported this on August 25, but I just saw it now: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that the disclosure of location information provided by Facebook to the FBI about users inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 did not violate Fourth Amendment privacy rights of a defendant who live-streamed his…
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Children’s App Settles with CARU Over COPPA and Guideline Violation Allegations
Liisa Thomas of Sheppard Mullin writes: Firefly Games agreed to take corrective action in response to the Children’s Advertising Review Unit’s allegations that the company had violated COPPA by inaccurately (and confusingly) explaining its privacy practices. The app in question, LOL Surprise! Room Makeover, featured dolls and characters intended for children and animated characters. It also included content directed…
New Yorkers protest against illegal forced quarantine policy
Jeremy Loffredo writes that instead of just accepting the court’s ruling that overturned a state law that empowered the state to detain and quarantine anyone suspected of having a communicable disease, the state is appealing the ruling. By appealing the court’s decision, the state is signaling that even with the supposed COVID public health crisis…
“Sobriety checks” of motorists as pretext for ID checks
I’d ask, “How is this still even a thing?” but given how backward our country has gone in the past few years, it is. Edward Hasbrouck writes: In a disturbing decision, a 3-judge panel of the the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the arrest of a driver who refused to show ID on demand…