Amazon disclosed Friday that it had been fined €746 million by the Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) because Amazon’s processing of personal data did not comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR regulates data protection and privacy in the EU and the European Economic Area. It was passed in [...]

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has signed an anti-camping ordinance, which effectively makes homelessness illegal in the city. According to a report released by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, 66,436 people in Los Angeles County experienced homelessness in 2020. This has resulted in encampments that spread over parks and entire blocks, which include furniture [...]

Pope Francis said Monday during the Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit that the existence of hunger in a world that produces enough food for everyone is “a crime that violates basic human rights.” Earlier in July, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the COVID-19 pandemic “pushed” an additional 124 million people into extreme [...]

Paul Hodgkins of Tampa, Florida became the first felon Monday to be sentenced for his role in the storming of the US Capitol on January 6. He was sentenced to eight months in prison and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution for building damage.  On January 6, Hodgkins entered the Senate Chamber, where he waved [...]

The Supreme Court of Israel ruled Sunday that current legal restrictions on same-sex couples that prevent them from becoming parents were unlawful. The court said that the restrictions must be lifted within six months. Surrogacy in Israel is currently open only to heterosexual couples and single women with a genetic connection to the baby. However, [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee has temporarily blocked a Tennessee law that requires businesses to post signs alerting patrons if they allow transgender individuals to use the restroom that corresponds with that individual’s gender identity. Tennessee HB 1182 requires all businesses with formal or informal policies of [...]

The US Department of the Treasury on Friday removed sanctions on three Iranians, but stated that the move did not reflect a change in its sanctions policy toward Iran. The department announced that it had removed Behzad Ferdows, Mehrzad Ferdows and Mohammad Reza Dezfulian from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals [...]

A new United Kingdom-funded task force was formed Monday to investigate human rights violations in Myanmar that have occurred since Myanmar’s February coup. The project, called Myanmar Witness, was created “to independently collect, preserve, process, verify, investigate and review incidents of possible interferences with human rights.” The initiative is funded through the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth [...]

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced Friday that it opened a formal investigation against Amazon and Google for potentially failing to protect users from fake reviews. Both corporations potentially violated UK consumer protection rules. The CMA opened an initial investigation in May 2020 to determine whether major online shopping websites were taking adequate [...]

The US Supreme Court declined Monday to review a decision that allowed a transgender student to use the bathroom that corresponded to his gender identity. Gloucester County School Board v. Grimm was originally filed in 2015 after Gavin Grimm, who was born as female but identifies as male, was denied the use of the boys’ [...]