Privacy in the news…

Recent privacy headlines across the

nation

Electronic Toll Records Help Solve Crime – Assoc. Press,

12/11/03 Kidnap arrest sprang from pizza detail – Assoc. Press,

6/11/03

Minn. private police database shut down – Assoc. Press, 12/18/03

Privacy Fears Erode Support for a Network to Fight Crime –New York Times, 3/15/04

Poll: Terror laws could threaten freedoms – Assoc. Press, 9/11/03

City to put ‘gotcha’ cameras on crime – Chicago Tribune, 7/11/03

School face scanner to search for sex offenders – Assoc. Press, 12/12/03

Prepare to be scanned – the Economist,

12/4/03

Orwellian days could be just around corners – Chicago Trib.,

7/15/03

Growing use of private police network raises concerns – Assoc. Press, 10/30/03Florida drivers sue

over license records – CNN.com, 6/10/04

States’ database a trove of personal info – Salon.com,

1/22/04

Principal’s past checked by firm: School not aware of ’91 porn charge – Chicago Tribune, 4/2/04

U.S. attacked on air data privacy – Reuters, 2/1/04

Enforcement of privacy rights spotty: congressional probers – Chicago Daily Law

Bulletin, 7/31/03

Medical-privacy law creates wide confusion – USA Today, 10/16/03

As Public Records Go Online, Some Say They’re Too Public –New York Times, 8/24/01

                                 

Whitehouse seeks to expand DNA database – USA Today, 4/15/03

FBI may c

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juve

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DNA – USA Today,

11/16/03

DNA Testing Expanded to All Convicted Persons in New Jersey – New Jersey Law Journal, 9/30/03

Group says White

House lax on

medical privacy –

CNN.com, 4/13/04

Crimes go unsolved as DNA tool ignored – Chicago Trib., 10/26/03

U.S. court strikes down DNA sample law for convicts – Chicago Tribune, 10/3/03

Criminal Records lacking: Police officials say conviction data is so incomplete that reports can’t be relied upon – Indianapolis

Star, 5/31/04 In a data-mining society, privacy advocates fret – Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 12/30/03

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Wall Street Journal, 4/13/01

A Deadly Collection of Information –Washington

Post, 2/4/02 GAO: Fed Data Mining

Extensive – Wired News, 5/27/04Social Security numbers sold on Web – CNN.com, 8/28/03

Md. City Releases Prostitution Client Names – Assoc. Press, 2/11/04

Access to records erodes in Iowa – Des Moines Register, 1/12/04

DARPA ignored privacy concerns – Federal Computer Week, 12/30/03

Pentagon criticized on high-tech spying – CNN.com, 12/31/03Feds offer to

mend Matrix – Washington Technology,

5/24/04

Georgia stayed with controversial database despite governor’s statement – Associated Press, 1/30/04

Tracking U.S. fugitives with

commercial data – Chicago Daily Law

Bulletin, 4/14/03

Sun on Privacy: ‘Get Over It’

– Wired News, 1/26/99

Internet Data Seller Can Be Sued in Stalking-Murder Case – the National Law Journal, 3/10/03

Anti-terror laws increasingly used against common criminals – CNN.com, 9/15/03

In the fight fo

r privacy,

states set off sparks –

New York Times, 7/10/03

Larson wreck tape to stay secret: Hoffman Estates says records law does not apply – Chicago Tribune, 2/24/03 Del. OKs Limited Access to

Crime Database – Associated Press, 4/9/04

Leaking LAPD Documents

Leads to Jail Time – the

National Law Journal, 5/15/03

States debate shielding some court records in cyberspace – Associated Press, 6/30/03

Judicial conference to allow internet access to criminal files – Criminal Justice Newsletter, 12/1/03