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In the lawsuit, plaintiffs alleged Equifax was negligent in failing to protect consumer data, choosing to save money instead of spending on technical safeguards that could have stopped the attack, Bloomberg reports.

“Equifax knew and should have known that failure to maintain adequate technological safeguards would eventually result in a massive data breach.

Ben Meiselas, an attorney for Geragos, said the class will seek as much as $70 billion in damages nationally. »

Leah Remini snapped Anthony Bourdain’s four-year Emmy winning streak, taking the trophy tonight for Best Informational Series or Special at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Remini won her first Emmy, off her first nom, for A&E’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, exploring accounts of former Scientology members whose lives have been significantly impacted by the org’s practices.

Picking up her statuette, an emotional Remini began by saying she wanted to thank her mom, who was in the audience and who, Remini said, for years had hoped to attend a ceremony at which her daughter won an Emmy. »

Just watched this documentary about mental health institutionalization of youth.

Histories of mental health care are usually characterized as progress from unkind prison-like warehousing of the mad from the 1700’s to modern educated, caring, and efficient treatment.

It investigates mental health institutions in the context of Irving Goffman’s ‘total institution’ and looks at parallels between the institutionalization of youth in mental hospitals and the prison system. »

Amid Hurricane Irma prep, Florida man offers generator to stranger in need.

On Friday, Santiago returned to Lowe's with WFTV to get his own generator for free from the store. »