privacy in the news… recent privacy headlines across the nation
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Privacy in the news…
Recent privacy headlines across the
nation
Electronic Toll Records Help Solve Crime – Assoc. Press,
12/11/03 Kidnap arrest sprang from pizza detail – Assoc. Press,
6/11/03
Minn. private police database shut down – Assoc. Press, 12/18/03
Privacy Fears Erode Support for a Network to Fight Crime –New York Times, 3/15/04
Poll: Terror laws could threaten freedoms – Assoc. Press, 9/11/03
City to put ‘gotcha’ cameras on crime – Chicago Tribune, 7/11/03
School face scanner to search for sex offenders – Assoc. Press, 12/12/03
Prepare to be scanned – the Economist,
12/4/03
Orwellian days could be just around corners – Chicago Trib.,
7/15/03
Growing use of private police network raises concerns – Assoc. Press, 10/30/03Florida drivers sue
over license records – CNN.com, 6/10/04
States’ database a trove of personal info – Salon.com,
1/22/04
Principal’s past checked by firm: School not aware of ’91 porn charge – Chicago Tribune, 4/2/04
U.S. attacked on air data privacy – Reuters, 2/1/04
Enforcement of privacy rights spotty: congressional probers – Chicago Daily Law
Bulletin, 7/31/03
Medical-privacy law creates wide confusion – USA Today, 10/16/03
As Public Records Go Online, Some Say They’re Too Public –New York Times, 8/24/01
Whitehouse seeks to expand DNA database – USA Today, 4/15/03
FBI may c
ollect
juve
niles’
DNA – USA Today,
11/16/03
DNA Testing Expanded to All Convicted Persons in New Jersey – New Jersey Law Journal, 9/30/03
Group says White
House lax on
medical privacy –
CNN.com, 4/13/04
Crimes go unsolved as DNA tool ignored – Chicago Trib., 10/26/03
U.S. court strikes down DNA sample law for convicts – Chicago Tribune, 10/3/03
Criminal Records lacking: Police officials say conviction data is so incomplete that reports can’t be relied upon – Indianapolis
Star, 5/31/04 In a data-mining society, privacy advocates fret – Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 12/30/03
Big B
rother-in-Law: If the FB
I
Hopes to G
et The Goods on
You, It May Ask ChoicePoint –
Wall Street Journal, 4/13/01
A Deadly Collection of Information –Washington
Post, 2/4/02 GAO: Fed Data Mining
Extensive – Wired News, 5/27/04Social Security numbers sold on Web – CNN.com, 8/28/03
Md. City Releases Prostitution Client Names – Assoc. Press, 2/11/04
Access to records erodes in Iowa – Des Moines Register, 1/12/04
DARPA ignored privacy concerns – Federal Computer Week, 12/30/03
Pentagon criticized on high-tech spying – CNN.com, 12/31/03Feds offer to
mend Matrix – Washington Technology,
5/24/04
Georgia stayed with controversial database despite governor’s statement – Associated Press, 1/30/04
Tracking U.S. fugitives with
commercial data – Chicago Daily Law
Bulletin, 4/14/03
Sun on Privacy: ‘Get Over It’
– Wired News, 1/26/99
Internet Data Seller Can Be Sued in Stalking-Murder Case – the National Law Journal, 3/10/03
Anti-terror laws increasingly used against common criminals – CNN.com, 9/15/03
In the fight fo
r privacy,
states set off sparks –
New York Times, 7/10/03
Larson wreck tape to stay secret: Hoffman Estates says records law does not apply – Chicago Tribune, 2/24/03 Del. OKs Limited Access to
Crime Database – Associated Press, 4/9/04
Leaking LAPD Documents
Leads to Jail Time – the
National Law Journal, 5/15/03
States debate shielding some court records in cyberspace – Associated Press, 6/30/03
Judicial conference to allow internet access to criminal files – Criminal Justice Newsletter, 12/1/03