Mississippi’s age-verification law violates the First Amendment in part because it requires the collection of personally identifying information and in turn “chills speech,” NetChoice argued Friday in a reply brief seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction (see 2505200017).
A recent decision by a California federal court that granted collective action certification in an age-discrimination case about using AI in the hiring process has larger implications for AI-driven recruiting technology, said Davis Wright attorneys Jeremy Merkelson and Erik Mass in a blog post Wednesday.
President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department again pushed a federal court to dissolve a preliminary injunction halting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to Treasury's sensitive information. The injunction is no longer needed, the government argued Wednesday.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) argued this week that opponents of New Jersey's Daniel's Law, which protects judicial and law enforcement personnel's private information, would use First Amendment grounds to oppose almost all privacy measures.
A 19-year-old Massachusetts college student was charged and agreed to plead guilty to hacking into software company PowerSchool's network and causing its 2024 data breach, the North Carolina Attorney General announced Wednesday. AG Jeff Jackson (D) launched an investigation into the breach that impacted more than 62.4 million people across the U.S. in February (see 2502060055).
The Mississippi attorney general fired back Monday against NetChoice, opposing motions for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against a law that requires social media platforms to verify users' ages, obtain parental consent for minors to have accounts, and limit the content minors are exposed to on the platforms.
A subscriber to The Onion hit the satirical news site with a class-action complaint on Friday, alleging that it deployed a tracking pixel that transmitted his personally identifiable information to third parties without prior knowledge or consent, which violates the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA).
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Friday opposed a motion from federal employees asking a court to stop OPM from disclosing records containing sensitive personal information to DOGE. The American Federation of Government Employees requested the injunction at the end of April, claiming that disclosing this data is a violation of the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Administrative Procedures Act (see 2504280027).
President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department doubled down Friday on their request that a court dissolve a preliminary injunction (PI) that's preventing Treasury employees from accessing systems containing citizens' sensitive information.
New York led a coalition of states that asked a federal court Wednesday to ignore a motion from President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department to dissolve a preliminary injunction. The injunction bars Treasury employees from accessing systems that contain personally identifiable information (PII) or financial information of payees.