Amnesty International reported on Thursday that tech companies used unlawful web scraping to collect large volumes of online data for the development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa re-filed ​in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday, challenging a panel report alleging he violated the constitution during his previous 'Farmgate' scandal.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 73 on Wednesday, expanding the state’s election security protections by restricting unauthorized law enforcement access to polling places, banning ...

Former president Joe Biden on Tuesday filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to block the US Department of Justice (DOJ) from releasing audio recordings and ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday reported that occupying Russian authorities are unlawfully seizing civilian property belonging to occupied Ukrainians in violation of international law, which ...

Canadian Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said Tuesday that the federal lawful access bill requires further amendments to strengthen privacy protections for ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the Trump administration of deporting almost 13,000 third-country nationals between January 2025 and March 2026 without due process or access to basic services, in a ...

A United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based company reportedly hired and transited hundreds of Colombian private military contractors to Sudan in support of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Human Rights Watch ...

A three-judge federal court on Tuesday barred Alabama from using its Republican-drawn congressional map in this year's elections, ruling that the map intentionally discriminated against Black voters ...

Pope Leo XIV warned Monday of the dangers presented by artificial intelligence (AI) systems, citing the threat of 'increasingly autonomous weapons systems practically beyond human reach to govern ...

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has settled its first national case with a school district over harm to children’s mental health.  The terms of the settlement with Breathitt ...

Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in ...