Scott Greenfield comments on a ruling previously noted on this site: In an underappreciated ruling, District of Columbia Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the multinational law firm Covington & Burling must comply with an SEC subpoena requiring the firm to give up the names of clients, publicly-traded corporations, in order for the SEC to investigate whether…
Kr: PIPC Imposes a New Round of Sanctions against Meta Inc, Meta Ireland, and Instagram
July 27, 2023 (This is an unofficial and modified translation from a Korean-language press release.) On July 26, the Personal Information Protection Commission (“PIPC”) held a plenary meeting and reached a decision to impose administrative fines of approximately KRW 6.5 billion (approx. USD 5.1 million) against Meta Platforms, Ireland Limited (“Meta Ireland”) and KRW 886…
Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data
Dell Cameron reports: An effort by United States lawmakers to prevent government agencies from domestically tracking citizens without a search warrant is facing opposition internally from one of its largest intelligence services. Republican and Democratic aides familiar with ongoing defense-spending negotiations in Congress say officials at the National Security Agency (NSA) have approached lawmakers charged…
Say Goodbye to Permissionless Travel
Matt Welch writes: Once upon a time, citizens of the United States could travel to almost every country in the European Union for 90 days without asking any government for permission beyond showing a passport at the initial point of entry. It was—and still is, for a few waning months—a marvelous if underacknowledged achievement for…