Groups ask attorney general to discard ‘Utah list’
Lee Davidson reports: Several civil rights groups are asking Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff not to use a now-infamous list of 1,300 alleged illegal immigrants to pursue criminal charges against them. More than 100 groups made a similar request last month to federal immigration officials. Now, many... Read more...
New YorK State’s new end-run approach to compiling DNA database
August 20, 2010 by Dissent
Filed under Court, Featured Headlines, Govt, Surveillance
Michael Virtanen reports: Local prosecutors in New York are being urged to collect DNA samples as part of plea bargains in all misdemeanor cases after a bill that would have required the record keeping got stuck in the Legislature. The state has data on genetic material from about 365,000 criminals convicted... Read more...
UK: Council’s breach of Data Protection
Laura Wild of Rochdale Online seems convinced that Rochdale Borough Council breached Data Protection rules when they gave out the mobile phone numbers of 1000 people for a research program: The research, being carried out by London Company, OCR International, on behalf of the council, has been slammed... Read more...
Nat Hentoff: FBI continues Hoover’s unconstitutional practices
August 14, 2010 by Dissent
Filed under Govt, Surveillance
Nat Hentoff writes: Many Americans may not remember, if they ever knew, that toward the end of the Bush administration, FBI Director Robert Mueller and then Attorney General Michael Mukasey so greatly expanded the “Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations” that now, in Barack Obama’s presidency,... Read more...
UT: Feds asked to investigate privacy breach in immigrant list
Lois M. Collins reports: Utah individuals and advocacy organizations want regional Food Stamp and Medicaid program bosses to respond publicly to last month’s release of a list of immigrants that contained private information. The advocates want the federal program to offer the state training on... Read more...