Charlie Savage and Katie Benner report: In the last weeks of the Trump administration and continuing under President Biden, the Justice Department fought a secret legal battle to obtain the email logs of four New York Times reporters in a hunt for their sources, a top lawyer for the newspaper said Friday night. While the…
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Two New Laws Restrict Police Use of DNA Search Method
Virginia Hughes reports: New laws in Maryland and Montana are the first in the nation to restrict law enforcement’s use of genetic genealogy, the DNA matching technique that in 2018 identified the Golden State Killer, in an effort to ensure the genetic privacy of the accused and their relatives. Beginning on Oct. 1, investigators working…
Facebook Backs Down from Forced WhatsApp Privacy Changes
From EPIC.org: WhatsApp previously threatened sanctions against users who would not accept the company’s new terms of use with weaker privacy protections, but backed down late Friday after a coalition of groups from around the world protested. Burcu Kilic, digital rights program director for Public Citizen, released the following statement in response: “Thank you for stopping what you…
INTERPOL unveils new global database to identify missing persons through family DNA
From INTERPOL: LYON, France: In 2004, Croatian police found a man’s body in the Adriatic Sea. The condition of the body, which rendered identification through fingerprints or facial recognition impossible, meant that – for more than a decade – it remained unidentified. Enter I-Familia, a groundbreaking new database officially launched this month that applies cutting-edge…