#Drumpf admin rewarding #energy contractors with massive #taxpayer payouts to drop #windmill projects.

#Drumpf admin vowed on Wednesday to pay $765 million to a power project developer #Invenergy to abandon planned #windmill projects off the coastal states of New York, #California and #Maine and convert resources to developing natural gas power plants in five landlocked Midwest states.

Seven U.S. states sued the admin this month over a similar $800 million payment to #TotalEnergies TTEF.PA to cancel an east coast offshore wind project. The state AG's suing the #ExecBranch allege payments are not proper #USA govt process and illegally misuse fund$ reserved for legal settlements when there was no actual #litigation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-will-pay-to-scrap-california-offshore-wind-lease/ar-AA25YT58

As expected, the data broker I filed a successful complaint against for not giving me any information when they took my data from an Austrian company register appealed the data protection authority's decision.

Now, the administrative court will decide. This will make a proceeding that already took more than two years even longer.

Yes, we have an enforcement issue when it comes to digital privacy protection!
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#privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #litigation #DataBrokers

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AN update on #BHP #WageTheft and Fraud allegations and #Court proceedings. Big #money trying to tie everything up tight to prevent #PublicDisclosure. I wonder why? (Rhetorical)

Read it here before BHP’s #Silks get it take down. Quick…
@DavidPenington
https://michaelwest.com.au/bhp-threatens-to-pursue-journalist-and-coal-miner-for-costs-in-court-case-it-brought/

#Litigation #ClassWar #FreePress #ThisIsJournalism #ShellCompanies #Fraud

Here we go… this is what big #Corporations and their associated #Workforce sub-contracting is all about. #Fleecing #Workers and walking away from #DutyOfCare using #LegalAttactDogs and flooding the courts with legal counters backed up with ample funding to drown out #Litigation (There are new laws — anti SLAPP? — in the UK to prevent this from happening, but not here) and out-spend legitimate lawsuits. Laws to protect the wealthy and control everyone else.

“This has all the hallmarks of strategic litigation for commercial advantage. BHP, with its army of hundreds of PR staff, refused to respond to repeated approaches from Michael West Media. Yet they were lightning fast to sue. They’re weaponising our public courts — funded by taxpayers — to silence a simple enquiry into potential systemic wage theft. All while pocketing around $622 million a year in taxpayer-funded diesel fuel tax credits.”

https://www.boganintel.com/p/bhp-tries-to-bury-114-billion-wage

#LegalFraud #StateCapture #WorkforceProviders #ClassWar #AusPol #BHP #WageTheft #MichealWestMedia #TaxRorts #PublicFUndingPrivateEnterprises #RunawayCapitalism #Fraud #CulpableBehaviour

Rather than waiting for AI-specific legislation, plaintiffs are trying to fit AI-related conduct into existing statutes and receiving mixed results from courts:

#AILitigation #DataPrivacy #Litigation #ArtificialIntelligence

https://www.zwillgen.com/litigation/old-statutes-new-targets-plaintiffs-using-existing-privacy-consumer-laws-against-ai-companies/

Your CMP is supposed to protect you. But when deployed incorrectly, it becomes a plaintiff's Exhibit A. The 10 patterns behind the current wave of cookie litigation:

#CIPA #Litigation #CookieCompliance #ConsentManagement #CMP

https://www.zwillgen.com/litigation/top-10-ways-to-get-sued-over-cookies/