Corinne Lestch reports: The City Council is pushing for the creation of a medical registry for people with developmental disabilities along with access to GPS tracking devices in the wake of 14-year-old Avonte Oquendo’s death. The package of legislation, spearheaded by Council members Ruben Wills (D-Queens) and Vanessa Gibson (D-Bronx) calls for a new voluntary…
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Article: Policing by Numbers: Big Data and the Fourth Amendment – Joh
Elizabeth Joh has an article in Washington Law Review that begins: The age of “big data” has come to policing. In Chicago, police officers are paying particular attention to members of a “heat list”: those identified by a risk analysis as most likely to be involved in future violence.1 In Charlotte, North Carolina, the police have…
Article: The Fourth Amendment and the Global Internet – Kerr
Orin Kerr has an upcoming article in the Stanford Law Review that is available for download on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: This article considers how Fourth Amendment law should adapt to the increasingly worldwide nature of Internet surveillance. It focuses on two types of problems not yet addressed by courts. First, the Supreme Court’s decision in United…
NZ: Privacy Week 2014 is May 4 – May 10
The Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand’s site has this note about Privacy Week 2014: A half-day forum in Wellington on Wednesday 7 May will be the main event for Privacy Week 2014. A full programme of speakers is currently being finalised. The Privacy Commissioner’s other events will include the launch of our latest survey results on attitudes…