#DataStore

9th Circuit opinion in Qualcomm is a pretty complete rebuke of D.Ct. Good to see. Biggest surprise remains the D.Ct opinion, not rejection of it. 1/ The opinion's holding that

In a 2-1 decision, the Ninth Circuit allowed the Trump administration to terminate TPS for Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Sudan, a program that gave temporary protected status to at

keskkonnakaitse

now for the legal rebuke! let's look at Blair v. Bethel School District, 608 F.3d 540 (9th Cir. 2010) and Zilich v. Longo, 34 F.3d 359 (6th Cir. 1994).(1/x)http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2010/06/14/08-35895.pdfhttps://ww

An interesting new case decision out of the 9th Circuit. In US v. Costanzo, the 9th Cir upheld the conviction of 5 counts of money laundering using bitcoin. #cryptocurrency #cryptotwitter

Mark Joseph Stern

BREAKING: Supreme Court takes a Second Amendment case challenging New York's restrictions on concealed public carry. https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/042621zor_e18f.pdf This case is likely to pave the way to the Supreme C

#RoseGarden Okay, this is getting to me. Let’s review:1. Jack Kennedy was the real driver of the 1961 Rose Garden renovations (not so much Jackie although she expressed profound appreciation

One of my favorite software development practices is to wrap dependencies into custom abstractions.I hate it when a third-party leaks all over my code and a refactor takes hours (if

Carole Cadwalladr

Reader, I didn’t write the article. Three male colleagues did. It’s very good. By @PaulLewis @david_conn & @davidtpegg https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/12/uk-government-using-confidential-patient-data-in-coronavirus-response Ladz in the

There is really not enough information in this @Guardian article to assess how severe the privacy issues are. Sharing of NHS data should be carefully looked at and always as

We've seen documents revealing how the American big data firm Palantir and British AI company Faculty are helping build an "unprecedented" UK government database to help respond to the coronavirus

Yesterday a panel of the 9th Circuit ruled that the Census Bureau must continue counting U.S. residents through 10/31, in order to achieve an accurate count that the pandemic would

Awesome, @PrivacyPros published the second companion piece about trying to keep/delete your data appropriately (aka data retention) in a distributed system, so let me give you the rundown.First off, this

This is a great example of post-Cambridge Analytica data reporting that just fails to do the issue, the concerns or the public policy issue any service whatsoever.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/12/uk-government-using-confidential-patient-

So let's unpack this.We hear a lot about "#dashboards"; we were even promised sight of one, back in March* - though we've not seen it yet.But what are they, in

Carole Cadwalladr

Shocking story by @PaulLewis & team. @Guardian has seen documents showing govt using Peter Thiel’s Palantir’s & NHS patient data to model ‘herd immunity’ week after policy supposedly droppedhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/12/uk-gov

Rachel Coldicutt

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I’m not sure about the breathless tone of this Guardian article, but I *have* raised concerns about the dashboard to @NHSX - how will insights will be generated? What governance