A European Union court Wednesday upheld a ruling that Google violated European Union (EU) competition rules. While the General Court largely upheld a European Commission (EC) decision that Google engaged in anti-competitive practices, the court lowered the previously imposed €4.3 billion fine to €4.1 billion. The EC fined Google in 2018 for anti-competitive practices in [...]

A federal grand jury in the district of New Jersey Wednesday indicted three Iranian nationals for an alleged computer-hacking scheme involving organizations from several countries. The indictment named Mansour Ahmadi, Ahmad Khatibi Aghda, and Amir Hossein Nickaein Ravari as defendants. The indictment alleges that the defendants engaged in a computer-hacking scheme and hacked into multiple [...]

Whistleblower and former Twitter-employee Peiter Zatko Tuesday testified to the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Data Security. As Twitter’s former “Security Lead,” Zatko told the committee that Twitter prioritized profits over security, creating serious risks for American users. Zatko, also known as dotMudge, was Twitter’s Security Lead from 2020-2022 for the company’s global support and [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday announced the indictments of eight leaders of a human smuggling operation (HSO) at the US-Mexico border. The effort was a part of the DOJ’s Joint Task Force Alpha, a law enforcement task force assembled in June 2021 to combat dangerous human smuggling and trafficking groups operating out of [...]

US Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina Tuesday introduced the Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act. If enacted, the act would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy at the federal level. Under the proposed legislation, physicians would be required to perform any medical examinations and tests that a reasonable and prudent physician [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Tuesday reheard arguments in a case filed by gun rights activist Micheal Cargillo to challenge a Trump-era ban on bump stocks. Cargill filed a petition for a rehearing en banc in January, arguing that the challenged rule misclassifies a bump stock as machine guns.  After a 2017 [...]

A German court Tuesday rejected a lawsuit filed by environmental group Deutsche Umwelthilfe intended to bar Mercedes-Benz from selling cars with combustion engines that emit greenhouse gases after 2030. Deutsche Umwelthilfe claimed that Mercedes-Benz must comply with the Paris Climate Protection Agreement and the German Climate Protection Act regarding reduction in its vehicles’ CO2 emissions. Deutsche [...]

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team Monday filed a response to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) most recent court filing asking a judge to lift the preliminary injunction barring the use of documents seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Florida, residence in the DOJ’s criminal probe. Trump’s team asked the judge to leave the preliminary injunction in [...]

Irish Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Roderic O’Gorman Monday signed an order providing for birth information and tracing services under the new Birth Information and Tracing Act to begin on October 3. The act codifies the right for every Irish person who was adopted, was boarded out or had their birth information illegally [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan Richard Bennet Monday issued a special report indicating the country is experiencing a deepening human rights crisis. Bennet’s report focused on changes which have occurred in the country since the Taliban took power in August 2021. Bennett cited the severe restriction on the rights [...]