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Canadian Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said Tuesday that the federal lawful access bill requires further amendments to strengthen privacy protections for Canadians, despite the government’s previous efforts. If enacted, Bill C-22 would authorize law enforcement officers to obtain subscriber information from electronic service providers for criminal investigations. Dufresne urged Parliament to limit the bill’s definition [...]

Streets were silenced, businesses shuttered, and daily life reduced to hurried, masked visits to the grocery store. Such scenes seemed unthinkable, yet they became a reality as governments worldwide scrambled to contain the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. While Western democratic leaders at first placed faith in isolating known infections, many ultimately followed in the [...]

A federal judge in Boston granted a temporary restraining order on Tuesday, requiring President Donald Trump’s administration to reinstate the hundreds of millions of dollars of canceled funding earmarked for teacher training programs  across the US. In his opinion, US District Judge Myong J. Joun found that cuts ordered by the Department of Education (DOE) in [...]

Canadian Privacy Commissioner Phillipe Dufresne on Thursday opened an investigation into social media platform X (formerly Twitter). The inquiry will examine whether the platform is complying with Canadian privacy law “with respect to its collection, use and disclosure of Canadians’ personal information to train artificial intelligence models.” Soon after Elon Musk acquired Twitter and renamed [...]

The European Commission and the European Board for Digital Services welcomed on Monday the integration of the new “Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online” into the Digital Services Act (DSA) to guarantee the safety of users. The revised code aims to strengthen the fight against harmful content online according to EU law [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday denied Target Corporation’s motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging the retailer collected and stored customers’ biometric data without proper notice or consent. A class-action lawsuit was filed in May 2024 by four Illinois residents on behalf of shoppers in the state. The plaintiffs allege that Target violated the [...]

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that multiple provisions of the country’s Federal Criminal Police Office Act (BKA Act) are unconstitutional because they infringe upon citizens’ privacy rights. The Society for Civil Rights e.V. (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V. or “GFF”), a German donor-funded organization, challenged the act in court, asserting that the anti-terrorist surveillance and [...]

Gambian lawmakers endorsed recommendations presented by the Joint Committee on Health and Gender on Monday to maintain the country’s ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) in anticipation of an upcoming vote later this month on the potential decriminalization of the practice. The recommendations were adopted with 35 members voting in favor, 17 voting against and [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned on Friday that global efforts to end female genital mutilation (FGM) are undermined by the cross-border movements of girls to undergo FGM. FGM is a practice that involves altering or injuring the female genitalia for non-medical reasons. It can lead to both immediate [...]

UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), a UN agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide, released a report Friday on International Women’s Day alleging that more than 230 million girls and women worldwide have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), an increase of 30 million or 15 percent compared with [...]