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October 28 · Issue #4 · View online
Legal news everyone should know
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We missed a week. It happens. Here’s some legal news. Have a great weekend and a happy and safe Halloween, or Diwali, or Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan, or Samhain, Allantide, Hop-tu-Naa, Day of the Dead and World Savings Day.
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The FCC just passed sweeping new rules to protect your online privacy - The Washington Post
The new rules, which could face a legal challenge from affected companies, require Internet providers to obtain their customers’ explicit consent before using or sharing sensitive data with third parties, such as marketing firms. That could mean dialogue boxes, new websites with updated privacy policies or other means of interaction with companies, which may offer discounts or other incentives to customers who voluntarily consent to online tracking.
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And that’s good news considering that…
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AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit - The Daily Beast
New documents reveal the telecom giant is doing NSA-style work for law enforcement—without a warrant—and earning millions a year from taxpayers.
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She's been sexually assaulted 3 times--once in virtual reality - Oct. 24, 2016
“Please explain how someone can be assaulted in any form using VR. This seems to be someone whining just to whine” was a common refrain on Twitter. Belamire temporarily suspended her Twitter account as a result. Belamire said she’s “more disturbed by the backlash than the VR incident itself.” It’s true, you can’t be physically, corporeally assaulted in virtual reality. But does that make it any less an assault? Should women whose avatars are groped and prodded without consent just get over it? Of course not, assault is assault is assault. It’s never whining to complain about being objectified, to speak out against it, to demand that it end.
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Kathleen Kane, Former Pennsylvania Attorney General, Is Sentenced to Prison - The New York Times
Ms. Kane’s unlikely political career came to a humiliating close on Monday, when a judge sentenced her to 10 to 23 months in prison for perjury and abuse of her office. She gave one hell of a commencement speech to my Temple Law graduating class in 2013. What I want to know is what happened to the folks whose emails embarrassed Pennsylvania and brought the character of the state’s judicial rosters into question? Anything here, here (PDF) or here about their trials, disciplinary reviews, etc.? Nope.
I wonder what this would have looked like if Ms. Kane was Mr. Kane. Did she violate the law? Yes. But I’ve had the uncomfortable feeling throughout this saga that this is a woman paying the price for outing a bunch of scumbags as scumbags.
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Pennsylvania Senate approves bill preventing public officials from identifying police officers who use force
The Pennsylvania Senate on Wednesday approved a contentious bill [legislative materials] that allows public officials to be charged with a crime for identifying a police officer who used force against someone. The new statutory requirements would bar any public officials or employees from identifying police officers until 30 days after the use of force incident or after the investigation is complete.
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What 130 of the Worst Shootings Say About Guns in America - NYTimes.com
Data is data is data. This deep-dive may surprise people on both sides of the gun debate. The findings are dispiriting to anyone hoping for simple legislative fixes to gun violence. In more than half the 130 cases, at least one assailant was already barred by federal law from having a weapon, usually because of a felony conviction, but nonetheless acquired a gun. Including those who lacked the required state or local permits, 64 percent of the shootings involved at least one attacker who violated an existing gun law. Of the remaining assailants, 40 percent had never had a serious run-in with the law and probably could have bought a gun even in states with the strictest firearm controls. Typically those were men who killed their families and then themselves.
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