Dan Fletcher of Time writes about a case reported here earlier this week: Northwestern University is dealing with a class project that may have become too successful. From 2003 to 2006, students at the university’s Medill School of Journalism investigated the evidence surrounding the murder conviction of Anthony McKinney, who was sentenced to life in…
Category: U.S.
Privacy and civil liberties: Where’s the watchdog?
Alan Charles Raul is a a lawyer in Washington, and was vice chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board from 2006 to 2008. He wrote an OpEd in the Washington Post that begins: Assuming the executive branch is still fighting terrorists as fiercely as necessary to protect Americans, the need for oversight on…
LifeLock barred from placing fraud alerts in Experian settlement
Patrick O’Grady reports: LifeLock Inc. and Experian Information Solutions Inc. have settled their lawsuit, and the agreement permanently blocks the original process LifeLock used to protect its clients. The settlement, submitted to U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Guilford earlier this week, was sealed except for the portions about the identity theft protection company being banned…
Cell-Tracking Bills Require Info Dump for Missing Persons
David Kravets reports: Mobile phone companies would have to immediately turn over location data to emergency responders to help them quickly track missing persons, if any one of the four bills floating in the House get traction. The law already allows, but does not automatically require, phone companies to turn over ping data from cell…