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EPIC: Administration’s Plan to Unlawfully Aggregate Personal Data to Enable Voter Purges Ended by Court Order in Significant Voting Issues Victory. A Trump-Vance administration attempt to unlawfully meddle in elections was struck down today, as a federal judge ordered the administration to end and disentangle a massive government database that consolidates millions of Americans’ sensitive …
Wired no paywall: “In May, the White House announced that its new app would be automatically downloaded onto the work phones of millions of government employees. The problem: Federal workers hate it and can’t get rid of it. Employees of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the State Department, and the Department of Labor (DOL), …
Federal Agency Workforce Changes: Update for July 2025 to January 2026. GAO-26-108583 Published: Jun 17, 2026. Publicly Released: Jun 17, 2026. Full Report Executive orders in 2025 aimed to reduce the federal workforce and restrict hiring in many areas. This is our second report on these workforce changes. The number of federal employees declined across …
Scott MacFarlane Reports – “Former Federal Tax Officials Call Trump’s Settlement with IRS a “breathtaking” and unlawful deal. A group of former federal tax officials, including a former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, are asking a federal judge to intervene and halt President Trump’s immunity deal with the Internal Revenue Service. The sweetheart deal …
“A new Pew Research Center survey finds negative – and often overwhelmingly negative – views of U.S. President Donald Trump in regions around the globe. Across 36 nations polled, a median of 23% of adults express confidence in his leadership of world affairs. In many countries, confidence in Trump has slipped since last year. Overall …
“Danish designer Klaus Krogh and the team at 2K/Denmark lead the typography and book design for Ascension’s Liturgy of the Hours, Second Edition. Their work shapes how the four-volume set looks and feels, from the fonts and page layouts to the overall reading experience. Every detail is carefully designed to make the text easier to …
Yet another example of government conducted on social media, X, owned by Elon Musk, via a posting by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, with the State Department completely absent. No American diplomats, translators, subject matter experts….just Kushner, Witcoff, Vance….and who else? This is the document posted on the OFAC site. And several notes – this waiver …
404 Media [no paywall]: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appears to be purchasing records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers from a data broker, potentially skirting a court order that banned ICE from sourcing such information, according to Senator Ron Wyden and government procurement records reviewed by 404 Media. The contract, worth nearly $10 million, is …
Via LLRX – Your medical provider might be recording your mental health care visits – Mental health providers are increasingly using AI technology to record conversations, raising privacy concerns among patients and practitioners. Roxsy Lin informs us that during these sessions, mental health professionals are required to obtain patients’ consent before using the tool. However, as shared …
Reuters: “A group of major book publishers including the “Big Five” English-language book publishing houses — Hachette, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — sued an alleged pirated book website for copyright infringement in New York federal court on Tuesday. The publishers said in the complaint, opens new tab that WeLib hosts …
Via LLRX – Create An AI Policy Before Your Firm Falls Further Behind – The majority of law firm employees are using AI with virtually no guidance or guardrails. How does your law firm compare? Do you have an AI policy in place, and have you educated your staff about appropriate AI usage? Nicole L. Black explains …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 20, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
