Natalie Hanson reports: Taxpayers slapped Meta, Google and H&R Block with a sprawling RICO class action Wednesday, claiming that a “shocking breach” coordinated by the companies resulted in scraping taxpayers’ private information for profit. In a 49-page complaint, the plaintiffs say the international firm H&R Block used customers’ private income and financial records to help train…
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SEC Approves Revised Privacy Act Rule
Washington D.C., Sept. 20, 2023 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today approved a rule to revise the Commission’s regulations under the Privacy Act, which is the principal law governing the handling of personal information in the federal government. The final rule clarifies, updates, and streamlines the Commission’s Privacy Act regulations. In addition, the final…
Students at a N.H. high school have been secretly taking pictures of girls’ body parts and putting them on trading cards
Morgan Rousseau reports: High school students in Bedford, New Hampshire, allegedly snapped inappropriate photographs of girls’ body parts, graded them, and circulated them to their peers in the form of trading cards, according to school officials. In a message to families Friday, Superintendent Michael Fournier said a group of freshman and sophomore boys had taken pictures of…
Nebraska Mother Gets Prison For Giving Abortion Pills To Pregnant Daughter
In July, PogoWasRight noted that a Nebraska teen had been sentenced to 90 days in jail in a case that involved obtaining abortion pills in violation of state law. The teen had enlisted her mother’s help to get the pills and she was more than 20 weeks pregnant at the time she reportedly took them….