Security personnel removed several prominent diabetes researchers, including the journal editor-in-chief and a former ADA president, from the American Diabetes Association's annual conference in New Orleans after they distributed copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration policies and a proposed $5 billion cut to NIH funding. The removed researchers were banned from re-entering and had scheduled presentations cancelled, with the participants alleging the association feared political retaliation.

Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog has warned against paying ransoms to hackers after education management platform Canvas was targeted in a global cyberattack, compromising the personal data of 72,000 students and staff in the city. “If it’s the case that a ransom was paid, that is a practice that we would condemn,” privacy commissioner Ada Chung […]