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Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet cited a United Nations report warning of the growing and “potentially catastrophic” threat to privacy posed by facial recognition and data mining software.
The Department of Justice has moved to block a bankruptcy plan that would grant Sackler family members immunity from future liability for their part in the ongoing opioid epidemic.
The Department of Justice Thursday announced its seventh distribution of funds to individuals victimized by Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities in what has been called the largest Ponzi scheme in history, raising the total compensation so far to over $3.7 billion.
New York Mayor Bill De Blasio has blamed virus-related court backlogs for a 58 percent increase in the Rikers population, and called on judges to use supervised release instead of jail for people accused of nonviolent offenses.
The Minnesota State Supreme Court has left it to the voters to decide exactly what policing in their city will look like in the future.
The delay is part of an ongoing debate over whether the state is violating an inmate’s rights by refusing to allow a spiritual advisor to lay hands on him during his execution.
While Facebook spent millions of hours cleaning up its U.S.-based networks, the harm inflicted in developing countries was often shrugged off as the “cost of doing business,” internal documents suggest. In one example, a Mexican drug cartel used the platform to recruit, train and pay hitmen.
The transgender leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group has pushed the federal Bureau of Prisons’ policies for transgender inmates into the spotlight.
Justice Thomas joined other fellow justices in insisting that their decisions are based on judicial philosophy and not partisanship.
Special counsel John H. Durham has secured an indictment accusing cybersecurity lawyer Michael A. Sussman of lying to the FBI.