LifeSiteNews reports: The website GotNews.com claims it has obtained and released “all” the remaining undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials shot by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), including videos that were blocked from being released to the public by a court order. Eleven previously unseen videos have been uploaded to YouTube. The website’s founder,…
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Aspen Way Enterprises and Aaron’s Inc. lose coverage in privacy breach case
Yelitza V. Dunham of Winston & Strawn LLP writes: A group of Liberty Mutual insurance companies successfully obtained declaratory relief that they had no duty to defend Aspen Way Enterprises and Aaron’s Inc. from two underlying actions alleging that spyware had been installed on rent-to-own computers. One of these, the Byrd Action, was a putative class action…
CISA amendment would allow US to jail foreigners for crimes committed abroad
Sam Thielman reports: An amendment to a controversial cybersecurity bill will allow US courts to pursue and jail foreign nationals even if the crimes they commit are against other foreigners and on foreign soil. The main aim of the amendment to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (Cisa), which passed a key Senate hurdle on Thursday,…
Theft At U. Washington Leaves Human Rights Workers On Edge
Jennifer Wing reports: The theft of a computer and hard-drive containing the names and stories of people who survived the war in El Salvador has human rights workers on edge. The break-in happened in Smith Hall, in the offices of the University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights, or CHR. UW’s Campus Police Department says…
California DMV worker indicted in ID theft probe
AP reports: A clerk at the California Department of Motor Vehicles and five other people have been indicted on charges involving the creation of new identities with Puerto Rican documents that were then used to get driver’s licenses, authorities said Wednesday. DMV clerk Tracy Lynette Jones pleaded not guilty on Monday in federal court in…
FL: Osceola County children’s personal information posted online
WFTV reports that they’ve uncovered an error that exposed personal information of children in Osceola County online. Reyes found names for every child charged in [court cases in the state] and names of children in foster care in Osceola County. The children’s names in juvenile court cases are supposed to be confidential and seemingly should not have been…