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Ridgewood NJ, November 27, 2024, a federal court denied motions to dismiss filed by over 70 data brokers claiming that New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law is facially constitutional. This is a significant win for the privacy law that protects the personal information of at-risk civil servants in New Jersey and establishes a new frontier for privacy protections for all Americans. Continue reading Federal Court Rules New Jersey Data Privacy Law is Constitutional
by John Solomon
WATCH | The Obama administration distributed thousands of intelligence reports with the unredacted names of U.S. residents during the 2016 election.
During his final year in office, President Obama’s team significantly expanded efforts to search National Security Agency intercepts for information about Americans, distributing thousands of intelligence reports across government with the unredacted names of U.S. residents during the midst of a divisive 2016 presidential election.
The data, made available this week by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, provides the clearest evidence to date of how information accidentally collected by the NSA overseas about Americans was subsequently searched and disseminated after President Obama loosened privacy protections to make such sharing easier in 2011 in the name of national security. A court affirmed his order.
