Isaiah Poritz reports: Meta Platforms Inc. categorically denied that it ever received the sensitive menstrual health data of millions of women using the popular period tracking app Flo Health Inc. on the first day of a sweeping privacy trial in San Francisco. Attorneys for the social media giant told the eight person jury the class action’s…
Wikipedia seeks to shield contributors from UK law targeting online anonymity
Cain Burdeau reports: Wikipedia sued the British government on Tuesday, arguing a law designed to protect people from online trolls and anonymous attacks will end up hurting the free digital encyclopedia’s collaborators, many of whom wish to remain anonymous. Wikipedia said it resorted to legal action after failing to convince the British government to amend…
British government reportedlu set to back down on secret iCloud backdoor after US pressure
Ben Lovejoy reports: We learned earlier this year that the British government had secretly ordered Apple to create a backdoor into encrypted data for all iCloud users worldwide. Specifically, it wanted a way to see personal data protected by Apple’s introduction of Advanced Data Protection (ADP), which extended end-to-end encryption to almost all iCloud data, meaning not even the iPhone maker could access…
Idaho agrees not to prosecute doctors for out-of-state abortion referrals
Jonathan Stempel reports: Idaho, which has a near-total ban on abortion, agreed not to prosecute or take away licenses of doctors who refer patients out of state to obtain the procedure, under a consent decree approved by a federal judge on Thursday. The decree prevents Idaho’s Republican Attorney General Raul Labrador and county prosecutors from…