In a joint public response to the Law Commission review on hate crime, they said the report will “leave many women disappointed and frustrated”, adding: “Their U-turn on making misogyny a hate crime not only fails to recognise how hatred drives crimes against women but also means t...
The study was carried out over a 24-month period and used a multitude of sources, both secondary and primary, to answer a number of key questions that were first set out by the Law Commission's 2014 report on hate crime law reform, as well as other questions set out as part of an ...
such asVermont, have opted to allow use of facial recognition only for certain investigatory purposes. Others have set more stringent guardrails, such as those created by a 2020Massachusetts lawthat require police to obtain a warrant to use the technology and create a commission to study use ...
The Law Commission’s suggestion is that the scope of the offence should be reduced by restricting it to communications “likely to cause harm.” However, the specific proposal that has exercised Mr Loughton is in the separate Hate Crime consultation document. According to Mr Loughton: “What...
and analyze demographic information of those convicted. They also share a projection by the U.S. Sentencing Commission that passage of the EQUAL Act would reduce the average sentence of newly convicted people by 31 months and cut the average sentence of nearly all of the 7,800 people eligible...
In Fonovisa, the operator of a swap meet allowed vendors to sell infringing goods, and the operator collected “admission fees, concession stand sales, and parking fees” but no sales commission “from customers who want[ed] to buy the counterfeit recordings at bargain-basement prices.” The ...
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In December, the European Commission presented an initiative to make hate speech, which is protected in the United States under the First Amendment, a crime across the EU. That law could make cases like Räsänen's far more common, and its implications would be "pretty enormous," Price sa...
In 2024 the Federal Trade Commission ramped up enforcement actions related to dark patterns, loudly signaling its concern that advertisers will use AI to manipulate consumer habits and its intention to curb businesses' use and marketing of AI to prevent alleged consumer deception, say attorneys at ...
“The Punjab Haryana High Court ruled that information under Rule 93(2) must be provided. This amendment could prevent courts from mandating the Election Commission to provide such information, and by amending Rule 93(2), that possibility has been done away with,” she added. ...