Michael Virtanen reports: Local prosecutors in New York are being urged to collect DNA samples as part of plea bargains in all misdemeanor cases after a bill that would have required the record keeping got stuck in the Legislature. The state has data on genetic material from about 365,000 criminals convicted of felonies or at…
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Second England footballer wins gagging order
In England, your privacy rights seem to be a function of how much privacy you can afford to pay a lawyer for. Matthew Moore reports: A second footballer has obtained a gagging order to prevent the reporting of details about his private life. The super-injunction granted by Mr Justice Nicol in the High Court on…
Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization
Paul Ohm’s article, “Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization,” appears in the August issue of the UCLA Law Review. The abstract: Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques that protect the privacy of individuals in large databases by deleting information…
Mx: End Of Privacy: City To Track People With Eye Scanners
Jesus Diaz reports: Imagine a public eye-scanner that can identify 50 people per minute, in motion. Now imagine the government installed these scanner systems all across an entire city. Or don’t imagine it, because it’s already happening, right now. Leon, Mexico, is doing exactly that, installing real-time iris scanners from biometrics research and development firm…