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Ever wondered if one car model is more trustworthy than another?

Today’s cars have their own agenda, which go well beyond just getting you from point A to B, and California is taking issue with that. In fact, the state is evolving new rules to allow you to opt-out of current default settings that enable your seemingly passive vehicle to broadcast your location to insurance companies and others (including the automaker) for the purpose of offering you ads for products and services. New rules planned to be promulgated this year under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) will face a tough fight from lobbyists.

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IT’S THE LAW (04/05/2022)

April 5, 2022

Increasingly, US states are proposing or enacting laws that could deprive LGBTQ individuals of gender-affirming care. This refers to procedures and treatment done to support a transgender or nonbinary person in a gender transition. The concern which was recently addressed in new guidance from the US Office for Civil Rights (OCR), is that some laws require medical providers to disclose protected health information (PHI), which is in violation of the US Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Meta Faces Class Action for Overcharging Facebook Advertisers

April 17, 2025

Remember the good old days, when lying was considered unacceptable? The folks at Iron Tribe Fitness, a South Carolina gym, are holding Meta to that forgotten standard in a class action suit alleging that Facebook overcharged advertisers as much as $4 billion by using one type of auction bidding process while claiming to use another.  Meta blames the error on a “software glitch” that began in 2013 and continued for at least four years.

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