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Trump administration hands over immigrant Medicaid data, targets ‘unsatisfactory immigration status’; raises privacy law concerns

US President Donald Trump (Image credits: AP) The Trump administration this week gave deportation officials access to personal data, including immigration status, of millions of Medicaid enrollees, raising legal and ethical concerns within the government.Internal memos and emails revealed that officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) objected to the data transfer, […]

N. Zealand PM floats privacy laws after staffer accused of filming women

Representative image (AI) New Zealand’s prime minister floated new privacy laws on Thursday after his own press secretary was allegedly caught taping sex workers without consent.Senior aide Michael Forbes resigned after a local news outlet alleged he covertly recorded audio of sessions with sex workers and secretly photographed women at the gym.Prime Minister Christopher Luxon […]

No toilet paper, privacy, or parking: Federal workers’ rough return to office

AI-generated image (For representative purposes only) As federal workers in US return to work in phases after President Donald Trump’s swearing-in, some of them were sent back home as their offices lacked basic necessities like toilet paper, parking space, chair, food and even privacy.Nearly 1 million employees who had been working remotely or in hybrid […]