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An op-ed in the New York Times this week makes an interesting proposal—that criminal histories should only be used against job applicants for a certain period of time. Alfred Blumstein, professor of urban systems and operations research at Carnegie Mellon University, and Kiminori Nakamura, associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of [...]
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When you are convicted of a criminal offense, you carry that conviction with your indefinitely, sometimes for the rest of your life. But sometimes, people who have never even been arrested find themselves being disqualified from a job due to a criminal record. A lengthy report from the New York Times discusses why this happens [...]
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In a first for the state, and possibly the first nationwide, a town has rejected state funding for police to purchase automatic license plate scanners (ALPR) due to privacy concerns.
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Law enforcement agencies across the country are gathering information from suspects’ cell phones without warrants. They may not be reading your text messages or viewing your call list, but they are tracking your locations. A U.S. Appeals Court ruled this week that the Justice Department must tell the public how it is using this information [...]
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Do you think you can enjoy some anonymity as you surf the web? Do you believe you should be afforded privacy in the context of your emails or chats? Well it seems that if some on Capitol Hill get their way, all Internet traffic and content could be tracked under a federal law, all in [...]
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When the videotaped beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles hit the world in 1991 there was shock and outrage like never before. But since that time, many similar videos have come to light as nearly everyone carries a phone with video capabilities, poised to shoot when something goes awry. But, not everyone thinks this [...]
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Could your legal and legitimate private medical records, such as what prescriptions you take, be freely available to police? That is what one state’s law enforcement agency is after, and the trend could spread.
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American students and citizens as a whole are being trained to not expect any privacy, and that the government has near complete authority to know where you are at what you are doing at all times. That’s the opinion of many privacy and civil liberties experts, and it is a chilling view. Our countries founding [...]
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