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Tribune Daily Brief
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| The
Brief for Dec 2 |
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In
today's Brief: Austin Mayor Steve Adler has not only supported Pete
Buttigieg's campaign for president, but the two are also good friends.
Elvia Limón, Texas Tribune 12/02/2019   
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| Port
Neches Plant Rocked by Multiple Explosions Was Declared High Priority
Violator |
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The Port
Neches chemical plant where two explosions and an ongoing fire prompted
widespread mandatory evacuations Wednesday has a years-long history of state
and federal environmental violations. The facility owned by Houston-based
Texas Petroleum Chemicals, or TPC Group, which manufactures highly flammable
1,3 butadiene, has been considered a high priority violator by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency for more than two years, and been out of
compliance with federal clean air laws since the agency's last inspection in
August 2017. State data shows the facility has reported spewing more air
pollution than allowed by its government-issued permits five times this year,
including hundreds of pounds of butadiene.
KIAH COLLIER, Texas Tribune 12/02/2019
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| 'Hundreds
of Millions of People' May Have Had Their Text Messages Exposed |
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A
database housing millions of private SMS text messages was left open online
for an extended period of time, a team of researchers at the online privacy
company vpnMentor said Sunday. The Texas-based text messaging firm TrueDialog
is thought to be responsible for the leak, the cybersecurity experts said. The
database contained access information to online medical services along with
passwords and usernames to websites such as Google and Facebook.
Dalvin Brown, USA Today 12/02/2019
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| Judge
Says Facebook Users Cannot File Class Suit Over Damages in 2018 Data
Breach |
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A federal
judge has ruled that Facebook users filing suit over a September 2018 data
breach cannot file suit as a group. However, U.S. District Judge William Alsup
in San Francisco stated that the users can seek better security at the social
media company after a series of privacy lapses. According to Alsup, damages
for time users spent to mitigate harm required individualized determinations.
He will allow users to file suit as a group to seek automated security
monitoring, improved employee training, and education on hacking threats.
Jonathan Stempel, Reuters 11/27/2019
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| New
Abuse Suits Could Cost the Roman Catholic Church Billions |
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Across
the country attorneys are filing new lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by the
Roman Catholic Church clergy, due to rules enacted in 15 states that extend or
suspend the statute of limitations to allow claims stretching back decades.
Associated Press reporting found the number of suits could surpass anything
the nation's clergy sexual abuse crisis has seen before, with potentially more
than 5,000 new cases and payouts topping $4 billion.
BERNARD CONDON AND JIM MUSTIAN, Associated Press, US News and World
Report 12/02/2019
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| Lawsuit:
Boy Scouts Overlooked Leader's Alleged Abuse |
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The
Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports that two men filed a federal suit in Little
Rock Wednesday, accusing the organization of concealing "negligence and
fraud.' The men claim they were sexually abused on scouting trips in Arkansas
in 1979 and 1980, when they were between 9 and 11, by a leader who the Boy
Scouts had deemed "ineligible" to volunteer with boys following accusation of
sexually abuse in Georgia two years earlier.
Associated Press, Wire Service Content, US News and World
Report 12/02/2019
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