Transcript Privacy in the news…

Privacy in the news…
Recent privacy headlines
across the nation
Poll: Terror laws could threaten freedoms – Assoc. Press, 9/11/03
Electronic Toll Records Help Solve Crime – Assoc. Press,
12/11/03
Privacy Fears Kidnap arrest sprang from
Erode Support
pizza detail – Assoc. Press,
for a Network
6/11/03
to Fight Crime –
New York
Times, 3/15/04
Minn. private police
database shut down
– Assoc. Press, 12/18/03
City to put ‘gotcha’ cameras on
crime – Chicago Tribune, 7/11/03
Prepare to be scanned – the Economist,
12/4/03
Growing use of private police
network raises concerns –
Assoc. Press, 10/30/03
Florida drivers sue
over license records –
CNN.com, 6/10/04
School face scanner
to search for sex
offenders – Assoc.
Press, 12/12/03
Orwellian days
could be just
around corners
– Chicago Trib.,
7/15/03
States’ database a
U.S. attacked on air
trove of personal
data privacy –
info – Salon.com,
Reuters, 2/1/04
1/22/04
Medicalprivacy law
creates wide
confusion – As Public Records Go Online,
USA Today,
Some Say They’re Too Public –
10/16/03
New York Times, 8/24/01
Enforcement of privacy rights spotty:
congressional probers – Chicago Daily Law
Bulletin, 7/31/03
Principal’s past checked by firm: School not aware of
’91 porn charge – Chicago Tribune, 4/2/04
Whitehouse seeks to expand DNA
Crimes go database – USA Today, 4/15/03
unsolved as
DNA tool
ignored –
Chicago Trib.,
10/26/03
DNA Testing Expanded to
All Convicted Persons in
New Jersey – New Jersey
Law Journal, 9/30/03
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
A Deadly
society, privacy
Collection of
advocates fret –
Information –
Chicago Daily Law
Washington
Bulletin, 12/30/03
Post,
GAO: Fed Data Mining Extensive
2/4/02
– Wired News, 5/27/04
Social Security numbers sold on Web
– CNN.com, 8/28/03
Md. City Releases Prostitution Client
Names – Assoc. Press, 2/11/04
DARPA ignored privacy concerns – Federal
Computer Week, 12/30/03
Tracking U.S.
fugitives with
Georgia stayed with
commercial data –
controversial database
Chicago Daily Law
despite governor’s
Bulletin, 4/14/03
statement – Associated
Press, 1/30/04
Pentagon criticized
on
high-tech
spying
Access to records
erodes in Iowa – – CNN.com, 12/31/03
Feds offer to mend
Des Moines
Matrix –
Register, 1/12/04
Washington
Internet Data Seller Can Be Sued in StalkingTechnology, 5/24/04
Murder Case – the National Law Journal, 3/10/03
Anti-terror laws increasingly used against
common criminals – CNN.com, 9/15/03
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
Leaking LAPD
Larson wreck tape to stay secret:
Documents
Hoffman Estates says records
Leads to Jail
law does not apply
Time – the
– Chicago Tribune, 2/24/03
National Law
Del. OKs Limited Access to Crime
Journal, 5/15/03
Database – Associated Press, 4/9/04