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UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), a UN agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide, released a report Friday on International Women’s Day alleging that more than 230 million girls and women worldwide have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), an increase of 30 million or 15 percent compared with [...]

Prior to Donald Trump, no US president — current or former — had ever been indicted. That all changed on April 4 when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that a New York grand jury had indicted Trump on 34 criminal counts. Since then, he has been the subject of three additional criminal indictments. He [...]

Jack Teixeira, the US airman suspected of leaking classified government documents, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday before a federal judge in a Massachusetts courtroom. Teixeira is charged with six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information. According to the court clerk’s notes, Teixeira appeared with legal counsel before Magistrate Judge David Hennessy. He [...]

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School.  Earlier this month, in its 279th report, the Law Commission of India (an advisory body for legal reforms under the Ministry of Law and Justice) released [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday charged Jack Douglas Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, over leaked classified US intelligence documents. The leaked documents came to national attention this past week, which resulted in the FBI arresting Teixeira on Thursday. Teixeira is charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense [...]

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Tuesday ruled that Germany’s data retention statute is not compatible with EU law. German telecommunication companies SpaceNet and Telekom Deutschland brought actions in German courts arguing that Germany’s Law on Telecommunications (TKG) breached EU rules. The TGK law imposed an obligation on telecom operators to retain customers’ traffic data [...]

A set of rules issued recently by Indian cyber security authorities threaten to undermine the very privacy benefits VPNs are designed to enhance. Following the passage of the new directives, VPN providers operating in India are legally obligated to keep a host of private user data on file for a period of five years. This [...]

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Tuesday that national governments may not permit the “general and indiscriminate retention” of traffic and location data of electronic communications. The court’s ruling comes from a long procedural history. In 2015, an Irish court convicted Graham Dwyer of the 2012 murder of Elaine O’Hara. Dwyer appealed to the [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Tuesday held Bulgaria’s laws on secret surveillance, including retention and accessing of communications data, violate the right to respect for private life and correspondence under Article 8 of the European Human Rights Convention. The application was lodged in October 2012 by two Bulgarian lawyers, Mihail Tiholov Ekimdzhiev and [...]

European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Wojciech Wiewiórowski notified an order Monday directing the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) to erase datasets uncategorized within six months, since they could potentially contain data on individuals with no link to criminal activity. Annex II.B and Articles 18(3) and 28(1) of the Europol Regulation allow Europol [...]