Canadian Press reports: An Alberta judge has found parts of the province’s Mental Health Act unconstitutional after it was used to hold a man against his will for nine months and treat him with psychiatric drugs. “(The man) suffered multiple breaches of his fundamental rights to life, liberty and security,” [Read More…]
Kenneth Terrell of the AARP reports: As many as 5,400 workers at Yale University were forced to either share their private medical information with their employer or pay an expensive fine, according to a class action lawsuit AARP Foundation filed today on their behalf. The lawsuit argues that by charging [Read More…]
Joe Cadillic writes: I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. Local governments and private corporations are using facial recognition to secretly blacklist people, despite having no valid reason to do so. A recent article in the Idaho Statesman and in the video above, prove that local [Read More…]
Cathrin Schaer reports: Schools in the central German state of Hesse have been have been told it’s now illegal to use Microsoft Office 365. The state’s data-protection commissioner has ruled that using the popular cloud platform’s standard configuration exposes personal information about students and teachers “to possible access by US [Read More…]