Grits for Breakfast writes: Bully for Texas state Rep. Jon Stickland for filing a crackerjack electronic privacy bill on the last day of bill filing last week. […] Rep. Stickland’s HB 3164 (see the text) would delete all the caveats and exceptions in Texas’ statute – including the phony, outdated distinction between more recent emails and those older than 180…
Category: U.S.
U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans’ finances
Emily Flitter, Stella Dawson, and Mark Hosenball report: The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters. The proposed plan represents a…
New York parents furious at program, inBloom, that compiles private student information for companies that contract with it to create teaching tools
Corinne Lestch and Ben Chapman report: In an unprecedented move, education officials will hand over personal student data to a new private company to create a national database for businesses that contract with public schools. Working with the city, state education officials are already uploading private information about students — their names, addresses, test scores,…
Article: On the “Considered Analysis” of Collecting DNA Before Conviction
David H. Kaye has an article in the 60 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 104. Here’s the Abstract: For nearly a decade, DNA-on-arrest laws eluded scrutiny in the courts. For another five years, they withstood a gathering storm of constitutional challenges. In Maryland v. King , however, Maryland’s highest court reasoned that usually fingerprints provide everything…