The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) has recently published two reports examining the political donations and advertising of Nevada trial lawyers. The results of these studies offer insights into how these legal professionals influence politics and public opinion in the state.
State Attorney General Aaron Darnell Ford filed last week to stop Meta from offering end-to-end encryption to children as a matter of “extreme urgency,” claiming E2EE keeps police from protecting kids from predators. This is just one of a slew of lawsuits filed against social media companies lately. Legal expert Riana Pfefferkorn, who discussed the case in Kim Zetter’s Zero Day blog and on Mastodon, calls it a particularly “bonkers assault on encryption.” We’ve reached out to Meta and Nevada’s AG for more information.