Peter Whoriskey reports: A proposal to equip all new cars with “black boxes” to record crash data has emerged as a key point of dispute between the industry and safety groups as Congress weighs an expansive auto safety bill. With both sides showing support for making black boxes mandatory, their appearance in all cars in…
Category: U.S.
House votes to expand national DNA arrest database
Declan McCullagh reports: Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database, according to a bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. By a 357 to 32 vote, the House approved legislation that will pay state governments to…
Malware and Search Warrant
Susan Brenner discusses an aspect of the search warrant and inspection of computer belonging to David C. Kernell, the young man who was subsequently convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin’s e-mail account: A recent decision from a federal district court addresses an issue I hadn’t seen before: whether searching malware on the suspect’s computer was…
Civil liberties groups file suit against Arizona’s new immigration law
Jamie Ross of Courthouse News reports on the anticipated challenge to Arizona’s new “papers, please” law: Arizona’s controversial immigration law “will cause widespread racial profiling and will subject many persons of color … to unlawful interrogations, searches, seizures and arrests,” according to a federal class action filed by the ACLU, the NAACP and other national…