Jordan Smith reports: Cece Moore, an actress and director-turned-genetic genealogist, stood behind a lectern at New Jersey’s Ramapo College in late July. Propelled onto the national stage by the popular PBS show “Finding Your Roots,” Moore was delivering the keynote address for the inaugural conference of forensic genetic genealogists at Ramapo, one of only two…
Category: Govt
‘Digidogs’ are the latest in crime-fighting technology. Privacy advocates are terrified.
Joe Anuto recently reported: On a Harlem street this summer, New Yorkers caught a glimpse of the future. Strutting between a logjam of NYPD vehicles blocking an intersection was one of the NYPD’s newest recruits: a robotic canine called Digidog that was emblazoned with the department’s blue and white colors and outfitted with a number of high-tech…
Three managers picked up; 2 others invited for breaching Ghana data protection law
GNA reports: Three managers were arrested on Monday by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service for breaching the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843). The three institutions are Hisense, an electronic goods dealership, Marwako Fast Foods and Agyabeng Akrasi and Co Limited, a law firm….
PPSA Asks Court to Compel Agencies to Search for Documents About Private Data Purchases from Accounts of 110 Members of Congress
The Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability (PPSA) is asking a DC federal court to compel the top federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies to search for records related to how they acquire and use the private, personal information of 110 Members of Congress purchased from third-party data brokers. In a Freedom of Information Act…