Sophie Nieto-Munoz The former Rutgers doctor accused of filming women in a bathroom had his hearing postponed Monday afternoon after a search warrant yielded nearly a dozen more computers. James Goydos, 58, is facing a 160-count indictment of alleged illegal activity over a two-year period, including burglary, computer theft and [Read More…]
Chad Marlow of the ACLU writes: Did you hear the story about the do-gooder tech company that is pushing new state “privacy” bills across the nation? The pitch by that company, Hu-manity.co — which is so effective its Oregon bill was introduced with more than 40 co-sponsors — is that [Read More…]
Nila Bala writes about an issue generating more discussion and debate. Could publishing a criminal suspect’s DNA in an open-source database create problems for innocent people? Could there be mistakes? What happens after the suspect — who usually isn’t involved a dramatically serious crime like serial killing, etc., is released [Read More…]
Christian Hetrick reports: A New Jersey data broker that collects and sells personal information about consumers told regulators that it did not knowingly possess data on minors, even as it advertised a mailing list of more than a million high school students for sale on its website. ALC Inc., a [Read More…]