Aarti Dhar reports: A Bill to create a DNA data centre to profile people accused of serious crimes and unknown deceased is in the works. The proposal was originally mooted in 2007 but was dropped to factor in ethical, moral and legal issues on the sensitive matter. Crafted by the Department of Biotechnology, it allows…
Category: Laws
National Comprehensive Data Protection/Privacy Laws and Bills 2012 Map
A great resource by David Banisar, Senior Legal Counsel of Article19.org, has been updated and uploaded to SSRN. Here’s the abstract: Over 90 countries and jurisdictions around the world have adopted comprehensive data protection/privacy laws to protect personal data held by both governments and private companies. This map shows which countries have adopted laws or…
Article: Fear and Loathing at the U.S. Border
Janet C. Hoeffel and Stephen Singer have an article in Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 82, No. 4, 2013. Here’s the abstract: In this paper, we argue that when technology crosses the border in the form of personal electronic devices (PEDs), there is a unique confluence of factors that requires a fresh look at the border…
Article: ‘Eyephones’: A Fourth Amendment Inquiry into Mobile Iris Scanning
A Christopher Rutledge Jones article in South Carolina Law Review, Vol. 63, No. 925, 2012 will be of interest to some readers. Here’s the abstract: MORIS, or Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System, is a small device that attaches to a standard iPhone and allows a user to perform mobile iris scanning, fingerprinting, and facial recognition….