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The series of lawsuits against US agencies over their alleged sharing of millions of Americans' data with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency center around a Watergate-era privacy law. How will judges apply it to this somewhat unprecedented scenario? Bloomberg Law news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-da…

I wish people who distrust the media could see the lengths I just went to to confirm one phrase in a 3,000-word story

Elon Musk’s DOGE, accused of unprecedented violations of privacy laws by accessing Americans’ most sensitive personal data, is claiming the public disclosure of its employees’ identities is the illegal invasion of privacy. Cassandre Coyer explains: news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-da…

Scoop w/ Justin Wise: Trump's DOJ plans to dismiss a Biden-era civil case related to sexual abuse of migrant children. “The United States is turning its back on children who are being abused in our country,” said a former civil rights division official. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/us…

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Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index trib.al/3appPRv

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BREAKING | One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including visa holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunday. browndailyherald.com/article/2025/0…

Scoop: Interim US attorney Ed Martin, who has amplified false claims of election fraud, said he’s formed a special unit to uphold US election laws that has already started one investigation, per officewide email viewed by Bloomberg Law. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/dc…

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with Freedom of the Press. freedom.press/issues/wired-i…

Privacy attorneys said it was noteworthy that the California #privacy agency did not target any connected cars-specific violations under its penalties against Honda last week news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-da…

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

We're tracking international student visa revocations across the country, follow our data updates here: insidehighered.com/news/global/in… for Inside Higher Ed

🚨The exits come after the Treasury Dept and DHS signed a memorandum of understanding that said the IRS will give taxpayer data about immigrants to authorities conducting criminal investigations. Bloomberg Law news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-repo…

SCOOP: Internal Palantir Slack messages obtained by Joseph Cox show the company did a recent sprint to build a tool that helps ICE find the physical locations of people who have been marked for deportation. 404media.co/leaked-palanti…

Google was found by a federal judge to have illegally monopolized some online advertising technology markets in a blow to a key part of the company’s business. news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/goog…

First here w/ Cassandre Coyer: California's #privacy agency for the first time disclosed an active investigation. It wants to force Tractor Supply to provide more material, the first public pushback against the agency's relatively new enforcement powers news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-da…