Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide
Getting a warrant for these was already trivial. [embedded post] @toad.city : Experts warn that if violating people's privacy is already deeply ingrained in the culture of policing and you make it ea...
The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues like its deceptive blue checkmarks, after a two-year probe
‘Impose Sanctions...’ The Verge : EU fines X $140 million over ‘deceptive’ blue checkmarks Inc : Why Elon Musk's X Was Slapped With a $140 Million Fine Eva Terry / Deseret News : European Union fines ...
Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao in US federal court, alleging Binance facilitated millions in payments to Hamas after October 7
Now Binance Faces $1 Billion Terror Allegations Israpundit : October 7 Victims Sue Crypto Exchange Binance for Allegedly Facilitating Payments to Terror Groups Mike Heuer / UPI : Hamas attack victims'...
The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal rules against Apple in a lawsuit accusing it of abusing its dominant position by charging a 30% App Store commission
Millions Of Users Could Get Payouts Moneycontrol : Apple found at fault in landmark UK lawsuit over App Store commissions X: @reuterslegal : Apple abused its dominant position by charging app develope...
Filing: Strava voluntarily dismissed its patent lawsuit against Garmin, for allegedly infringing its heat map and segments features, just 21 days after filing
Are things back to the “normal” that existed before the lawsuit? … Mohammed Iqbal : Strava just dropped its lawsuit against Garmin — after only 21 days. — The case that could have reshaped wearables...
President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial
reporting no longer grounded in truth. The facts are clear and stated as follows: 👇 @acyn : Collins: Can you explain why you chose to pardon the founder of Binance and did it have anything to do with ...
A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges
Europe is not allowed to make Internet Laws. — arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ... Hari Kunzru / @harikunzru : There is a possible future in which the UK government ends up blocking Wikipedia to save f...
A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $243M in damages
Awards $329 Million In Damages Aarian Marshall / Wired : Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget : Tesla found partially liable for a deadly 2019 crash Cassand...
FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban
The implications are breathtaking. the line between a normal legal state and exceptions/prerogative state can be shifted at will. Dean Baker / @deanbaker13 : Trump says he can claim extraordinary powe...
SCOTUS upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law
[This distinction is illusory. Today's AV technology is similarly prohibitive. No adult wants to provide their face just to watch porn.] … Evan Greer / @evangreer : this is bad in a variety of ways ...