Sam Cooper reports: Several Vancouver private schools are screening applicants to determine if their families are linked to gangs and pose a risk to students and staff. “We have recently been engaged by private schools in the Vancouver area to conduct due diligence on the families of prospective students,” Kim Marsh, managing director of private…
Irish school’s fingerprint system may breach laws
Jimmy Woulfe of Irish Examiner reports that Salesian College in Pallaskenry’s system for fingerprinting students for attendance purposes may violate data protection legislation: A fingerprint from each hand is registered on two scanners when students arrive in the morning and return after lunch. The system cuts out an hour’s work every day compiling rolls. However,…
Ohio lawsuit against firm buying workers’ comp data
Courthouse News reports a class action lawsuit [pdf] in Cuyahoga County Court alleges that the Bureau of Research and its owner, Stedson McIntyre, bought confidential claimant information from an employee of the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation for nearly a decade and disclosed it to third parties – including a felon. The claimants also allege…
Fourth Amendment cases: forcible catheterization, DNA swabbing
A newly filed lawsuit and an appellate decision involve Fourth Amendment rights protecting against forcible and warrantless taking of biological samples…. Courthouse News summarizes the background of a lawsuit (pdf) filed by a man who says police had him forcibly catheterized when he couldn’t produce a urine sample. A man claims a Lawrenceburg police officer…