Australia's privacy laws gutted in court ruling on what is 'personal information'
Jan 19, 2017 12:51 pm UTC| Law
In possibly Australias most important privacy case to date, the Federal Court today severely gutted Australias information privacy laws by narrowing the definition of personal information. Australias data privacy laws...
Can the US's constitutional and legal setup keep Donald Trump in check?
Jan 18, 2017 16:08 pm UTC| Law
The idea of Donald Trump as the most powerful individual in the world has generated a great deal of anxiety. Trump proposed to ban Muslims from entering the country, to construct a wall across Americas border with Mexico,...
Supreme court rulings open door to future 'war on terror' litigation in Britain
Jan 18, 2017 13:54 pm UTC| Law
The UK Supreme Court has handed down three landmark judgements relating to the activities of UK authorities and officials in the fight against terrorism. The court ruled on January 17 that cases could now proceed against...
Mark Zuckerberg Testifies In Court, Reveals Oculus Cost $3B Instead Of $2B
Jan 18, 2017 11:00 am UTC| Technology Law
When Oculus was acquired by Facebook as a promising startup, it was revealed that it cost the social media company $2 billion. After sitting on the witness stand, the social networks founder, Mark Zuckerberg said that he...
US Suing Qualcomm Over Accusations Of Strong-Arming Apple Into Anti-Competition Deal
Jan 18, 2017 08:00 am UTC| Technology Law
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is currently suing the chip maker Qualcomm, accusing it of forcing Apple to only use its chips for its devices and cutting off the competition. This puts the government agency directly in...
Is mass murder becoming a form of protest?
Jan 17, 2017 15:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
If theres one thing Americans can agree upon, it might be that people no matter how angry they are shouldnt be indiscriminately firing guns into crowds. Yet mass shootings are on the rise, with the shooting at the Fort...
The trouble with 'microaggressions'
Jan 17, 2017 15:08 pm UTC| Law
Few psychological concepts have caught on as successfully as the idea of the microaggression. The term gained wide currency only ten years ago, but by 2015 it had been crowned the word of the year by the Global Language...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects