Amnesty International (AI) released a report on Thursday accusing the Nigerian military of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during its fight against Islamic insurgency Boko Haram. The 89-page report , which is based on hundreds of interviews, gives accounts of abuses including rape, torching villages and indiscriminate killings. With the support of the [...]
Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems filed several multi-billion euro complaints in courts around Europe against Google (Android), Facebook, and two Facebook subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram Friday—the same day as EU data protection laws, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , went into effect. Combined, the lawsuits seek to fine a total 6.7 billion [...]
California’s 4th District Court of Appeal on Wednesday denied a request to stay a lower court ruling that threatens to invalidate the state’s End of Life Option Act which allows physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to the terminally ill. California Attorney General Xavier Beccera sought to block last week’s ruling from Judge Daniel Ottolia of [...]
Amnesty International (AI) responded to the arrest of prominent human rights defender Mohammed al-Bajadi in Saudi Arabia on Friday, pointing out the arrest as continuation of the country’s crack down on human rights. Mohammed al-Bajadi founded the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), which was shut down by Saudi authorities after its continued campaigns [...]
US President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Thursday that decreases some Obama-era regulations imposed on banks by the Dodd-Frank Act . Trump’s signature comes just two days after House approval on Tuesday. The new law allows banks with up to $250 billion in assets, as opposed to the previous $50 billion, escape some [...]
The Indonesian Parliament unanimously approved a new anti-terrorism law on Friday that will grant the military direct involvement in various counter-terrorism operations. The updated legislation comes as a possible solution following a slew of suicide bombings recently in Surabaya by individuals tied to the Islamic State. President Joko Widodo stated that the involvement of the [...]
A three-judge panel on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Thursday rejected a student’s argument that a school district’s transgender bathroom policy was an unconstitutional violation of his privacy, affirming the lower court’s decision. The lawsuit involved Pennsylvania Boyertown Area School District, which had a practice of allowing transgender students to [...]
Following a trial in the US District Court for the Northern District of California , a jury returned a verdict on Thursday ordering Samsung to pay Apple approximately $539 million for infringing on Apple’s smartphone patents. The jury awarded Apple $533,316,606 for design patent infringements and $5,325,050 for utility patent infringements. The verdict comes in [...]
US President Donald Trump on Thursday posthumously pardoned Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, who was convicted under the Mann Act in 1913 for transporting a white woman across state lines and served 10 months in federal prison. Trump said Johnson “overcame difficult circumstances to reach the heights of the boxing world and inspired [...]
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Representative Joe Barton (R-TX) reintroduced a bill on Wednesday that would strengthen privacy protections for minors online. The bill, known as the Do Not Track Kids Act of 2018, would amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by allowing internet companies to collect personal data from children under 13 [...]
