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…
Google sued over access to millions of NHS blood tests
Gareth Corfield reports: A Google-owned artificial intelligence company may have gained access to NHS blood test results without patients’ knowledge, according to a High Court lawsuit over 1.6m people’s health records. DeepMind, which was bought by Google in 2014, may have been handed the results of blood tests that were “processed by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation…
DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused email service now open to all
Michael Crider reports: Web users are becoming more and more aware of their privacy—or their lack thereof—on the modern internet. Search engine DuckDuckGo has always catered to those concerns, and doubled down on them with a dedicated Webkit-based browser for the Mac earlier this year. Now the company is completing its hat trick with a…
“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…