Jonathan Greig reports: The Treasury Department on Monday sanctioned five people and one entity tied to the Intellexa Consortium – a notorious holding company responsible for the Predator spyware. The company was sanctioned last year and again in March but senior administration officials told reporters on Monday that more was needed to target the company’s “opaque web of corporate entities, which…
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NY: Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris Proposes Health Equity Regulation Requiring Insurers to Collect Voluntarily Disclosed Demographic Data
September 10, 2024 Today, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) continued its work to close the health equity gap and reduce health disparities with a new proposed regulation. The proposed regulation requires health insurers to request race, ethnicity, preferred language, sexual orientation and gender identity data, ensuring critical self-reported data is available…
Court Grants Motion for Preliminary Injunction on Utah Minor Protection in Social Media Act
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On September 10, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah issued an Order granting a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, prohibiting the Utah Attorney General from implementing and enforcing the Utah Minor Protection in Social Media Act (the “Act”), which was set to take effect October 1, 2024. Enacted in…
Oversight Report Says More Than A Third Of Frisks Performed By NYPD Officers Were Unconstitutional
Over on TechDirt, Tim Cushing writes: More than a decade ago, the NYPD was sued successfully over its stop-and-frisk program. A federal court found the program routinely violated rights and disproportionately targeted minorities. Judge Shira Sheindlin ordered a number of reforms to the program and it was placed under federal oversight. Since then, the NYPD hasn’t changed much about…