DNA is becoming about as common in police investigations as fingerprints. The only problem is, Florida does not have a huge data base of DNA samples. That could soon be changing. Gov. Charlie Crist signed a new law yesterday, requiring anyone arrested on felony charges to provide DNA samples to the Florida Department of Law…
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FERPA: Brown wants student-privacy limits
Concerned that universities have gone too far to protect student privacy, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown has called on federal education officials to make changes. The Ohio Democrat sent a letter Monday to the U.S. Department of Education asking it to clean up the 35-year-old Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Brown joins a chorus of…
Pass ID Introduced in Senate
Pass ID was introduced in the U.S. Senate today. It will be added to the Bills in Congress page of this site once it is available online. Secretary Napolitano of Homeland Security had this to say about the bill: Today’s introduction of Pass ID in the U.S. Senate brings us closer to greater compliance with…
Canadian MPs call for expanded privacy law
Canadian MPs call for expanded privacy law A Commons committee says the federal privacy law should be expanded to cover new technology such as live surveillance-camera feeds and DNA swabs collected from suspects. Currently the Privacy Act covers only information collected by the government in recorded form, such as papers, tapes and computer files. Read…