A federal jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California found Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, guilty of 4 of 11 counts of various conspiracy and fraud charges on Monday. The jury deliberated for seven days over whether Holmes had committed fraud and conspiracy from promoting an analyzer that [...]
The European Commission Thursday published draft guidance outlining workers’ rights for online companies such as Uber and Deliveroo. The set of measures aims to help grow digital labor platforms by ensuring workers are afforded the same labor rights as typical EU “workers” by establishing if these platforms are “employers.” The measures will include language setting out [...]
The Switzerland Federal Court overturned the conviction of a Geneva doctor who helped a healthy elderly woman in an assisted suicide so that she did not outlive her terminally ill husband. Originally found guilty in 2019, Pierre Beck was sentenced to 120 days suspended jail sentence for breaking federal law. He administered a lethal dose [...]
The Council of Europe Friday warned Turkey they would begin taking “infringement proceedings” following the country’s failure to release a philanthropist who has been imprisoned for two years. The European Human Rights Watchdog referred to the 2019 decision. Previously they prompted Tuejry to release Osman Kavala from prison due to a lack of evidence of the [...]
A Frankfurt court Tuesday found an Iraqi national who was part of Islamic State (IS) guilty of genocide against the Yazidi minority, sentencing him to life imprisonment for killing a five-year-old girl. This was the first time that a court convicted an individual for committing genocide against the Yazidi minority. The 29-year-old, Taha al-Jumailly, was [...]
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal rejected a decision from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Wednesday, ruling that the ECHR has no power to intervene on the appointment of judges in the country. Referring to the ECHR’s May decision assessing the legality of appointments in the country, the Polish Tribunal held that this was “unconstitutional” to [...]
The UK government introduced the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill to regulate cybersecurity Wednesday. The Bill aims to impose harsher sanctions for non-compliance with the standards that the Bill introduces. The Bill was created to help to protect consumers from attacks by hackers by imposing security requirements on all manufacturers of “internet-connectable” devices. These [...]
The European Parliament Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) voted to approve the Digital Markets Act (DMA) Tuesday, imposing stricter restrictions on large social media platforms. The proposed legislation would hold social media companies, or platforms with more than 45 million monthly end users, accountable for unfair business practices. The DMA would also restrict [...]
Italy’s Anti-trust and Competition Authority (AGCM) fined Amazon and Apple over $225 million (€200 million) Tuesday for anti-competitive business practices, in violation of European Union competition law. The investigation launched last month discovered that the tech giants were using restrictive contractual agreements signed in 2018, which only allowed certain resellers to sell Apple and Beats [...]
The President of Ukraine has imposed sanctions on employees of the Russian special services Thursday. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy published a decree which would impose sanctions on 28 employees, 23 of who are Russian citizens and 5 who are Ukraine. The decree will ban them from using their assets in the country. It will also cover [...]
