Zack Whittaker reports: A Florida bill, which would have required social media companies to provide an encryption backdoor for allowing police to access user accounts and private messages, has failed to pass into law. The Social Media Use by Minors bill was “indefinitely postponed” and “withdrawn from consideration” in the Florida House of Representatives earlier this week. Lawmakers in…
Category: U.S.
Missouri Clinic Must Give State AG Minor Trans Care Information
Quinn Wilson reports: A Missouri-based Planned Parenthood clinic must turn over any records it has involving gender-affirming care for minors to the state’s attorney general, a Missouri appeals court ruled. Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri must comply with state Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s 2023 civil investigative demand, Judge Rebeca Navarro-McKelvey…
Georgia hospital defeats data-tracking lawsuit
Giles Bruce reports: A Georgia hospital has defeated a class-action lawsuit over the use of data-tracking tools on its websites, Law.com reported. A state court granted Moultrie, Ga.-based Colquitt Regional Medical Center’s motion to dismiss the complaint, which alleged the hospital unlawfully collected patients’ protected health information and transmitted it to third parties like Meta’s Facebook, according…
No Postal Service Data Sharing to Deport Immigrants
Adam Schwartz of EFF writes: The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) recently joined a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) task force geared towards finding and deporting immigrants, according to a report from the Washington Post. Now, immigration officials want two sets of data from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS). First, they want…