Alex de Leon reports: Governor Quinn signed the Employee Credit Privacy Act. It bans employers from using credit checks to determine whether to hire or promote a worker….. The law goes into effect on January 1, 2011. Read more on MyStateline.com
Category: Laws
What’s the Diff? CDT Comparison Chart on Current Privacy Bills
Justin Brookman writes: Two weeks ago, CDT President Leslie Harris testified before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection on the two privacy bills currently being debated in Washington: the BEST PRACTICES bill from Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush and a draft bill from Congressmen Rick Boucher and Cliff Stearns. During her testimony, Harris…
Hobbs DNA saga fuels debate on taking DNA samples after an arrest, instead of convictions
Dan Hinkel reports: When a man arrested earlier this year in Virginia on robbery and abduction charges was linked by DNA to the horrific slayings of two young girls in Zion, it raised the possibility of exoneration for the original suspect, who has been behind bars for five years. But the crucial connection might not…
Italy: Limiting of press freedom impacts bloggers too
Vikki Chowney reports: Italy’s move to restrict wiretapped phone conversations being published online means bloggers and even people posting comments on social networks will have to post retractions when asked, or face a fine. Italy is set to extend its ’obbligo di rettifica’ (rectification obligation), a law that requires newspapers to publish corrections, to cover…