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The Supreme Court will hear former FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter's case

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-15 08:32:00

The Supreme Court has voted 6-3 in favor of hearing a lawsuit brought by a former member of the US Federal Trade Commission, CNBC reports. Democrats Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya were fired from their posts as commissioners in the FTC by President Donald Trump in March. As has been the case with several of the Trump administration's actions to remove possible critics from their roles in civil service, the pair said their dismissal was illegal. Commissioners’ terms may only be ended

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Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 00:20:43

Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind has found that Kmart Australia Limited (Kmart) breached Australians’ privacy by collecting their personal and sensitive information through a facial recognition technology (FRT) system designed to tackle refund fraud. Between June 2020 and July 2022, Kmart deployed FRT to capture the faces of every person who entered 28 of its retail stores, and all individuals who presented at a returns counter, in an attempt to identify people committing refund fraud. In a det

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Appeals court reinstates fired Democratic FTC commissioner

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-17 14:45:49

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter can resume her work as a commissioner for the FTC, a federal appeals court has ruled. Slaughter, who was one of the two Democratic commissioners for the FTC that President Trump fired back in March, filed a lawsuit for her reinstatement. "Your continued service on the FTC is inconsistent with my administration’s priorities," a letter to the commissioners said. In July, US District Judge Loren AliKhan ruled that her removal from the agency was "unlawful and without legal e

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Trump's firing of Democratic FTC commissioner was unlawful, judge rules

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-14 16:00:29

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, one of the Democratic FTC Commissioners President Trump had fired back in March, said she looks forward to getting back to work. US District Judge Loren AliKhan has just ruled that her removal from the agency was "unlawful and without legal effect" and that she was still a "rightful member" of the commission. The judge explained that the firings violated protections that prevent a president from unilaterally removing officials at independent agencies. In her statement a

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