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    Oct 11, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. Maryland schools weak on digital privacy

    As a parent of a child who will be entering the Maryland public school system next year, I was troubled to learn that some Maryland public schools are utilizing a program called PalmSecure to scan the palm and vein patterns of our children to pay for school lunches. School officials claim that this system is needed because a palm scan takes less time than asking a child to scan a meal card or utilize old-fashioned cash and coins. While school officials allege that the palm and vein images of our children are not stored, once data are created electronically they are saved in some type of identifiable format that may be utilized in the future for purposes that were never initially imagined.
    As a parent of a child who will be entering the Maryland public school system next year, I was troubled to learn that some Maryland public schools are utilizing a program called PalmSecure to scan the palm and vein patterns of our children to pay for...

    Tags: Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Teaching and Learning, Schools, Students, Public Schools

    2. Mar 9, 2005 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  2. Data broker hires U.S. security official

    Associated Press
    ATLANTA - Data broker ChoicePoint Inc., whose enormous consumer-information file was breached last fall, said yesterday that it has hired a top official at the government agency that oversees airport screening to review the way the company screens its...

    Tags: Transportation, NYSE Euronext, Inc., Lawyers, Companies and Corporations, Transportation Security Administration

    3. Apr 24, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  3. OPINION: Will Harris be a watchdog of Internet giants?

    The Sacramento Bee
    Attorney General Kamala Harris has a Google issue. It's not that her reputation is being besmirched online. If anything, she is trending up. If you Google her, you'll see that Time magazine last week named her on its list of the world's most influential...

    Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Laws, Lawyers, Labor Legislation

    4. Mar 19, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Congress weighs legislation that would update email privacy laws

    SAN FRANCISCO -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced legislation Tuesday that would give stronger privacy protection to emails.
    SAN FRANCISCO -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced legislation Tuesday that would give stronger privacy protection to emails. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 would require the government to...

    Tags: Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, David Petraeus, Laws

    5. Dec 23, 2012 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  5. Mental health care in Virginia needs funds

    The recent school shooting in Connecticut reverberated across Virginia five years after a mentally ill gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, took the lives of 32 of his fellow students at Virginia Tech in April 2007. Mental health professionals throughout the state reflected on changes Virginia has made in mental health care since — and more changes they say are still needed to prevent such tragedies.
    The recent school shooting in Connecticut reverberated across Virginia five years after a mentally ill gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, took the lives of 32 of his fellow students at Virginia Tech in April 2007. Mental health professionals throughout the state...

    Tags: Virginia Tech, Private Health Care, Psychiatry, Insurance, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia)

    6. Dec 18, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. U.S. House approves changes to Video Privacy Protection Act

    The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would make it easier for people to share their video viewing habits on Facebook, even as it failed to take action on a broader email privacy law.
    The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would make it easier for people to share their video viewing habits on Facebook, even as it failed to take action on a broader email privacy law. The amendment to the Video Privacy Protection Act...

    Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Electronics, Netflix Inc., U.S. Senate

    7. Dec 1, 2012 |Column| Allentown Morning Call

  7. Tax identity theft on the rise

    Police in the Lehigh Valley for the first time have the ability to pursue people who are ripping off the government by filing fake tax returns and collecting refunds they don't deserve.
    Police in the Lehigh Valley for the first time have the ability to pursue people who are ripping off the government by filing fake tax returns and collecting refunds they don't deserve. While that may not sound like a big deal, the theft of our tax...

    Tags: Police Investigations, Personal Data Collection, Internal Revenue Service, Laws, Allentown

    8. Nov 29, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Senate committee approves sweeping update to digital privacy law

    Digital privacy laws in the United States just got one step closer to the 21st century. A Senate committee on Thursday backed privacy protections that would require the government to obtain a search warrant before gaining access to email and other...

    Tags: Patrick Leahy, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Laws, Paula Broadwell

    9. Apr 30, 2012 |Story| KDAF-LTV

  9. Student investigation critical of how SMU handles rapes

    It’s the headline that's creating a stir on the SMU campus "Sweeping rape under the rug".
    Charles.Bassett@cw33.com
    It’s the headline that's creating a stir on the SMU campus "Sweeping rape under the rug". "It's very disturbing. It's very disturbing", said student Jasmine Carr. Carr says it's hard to believe more than 100 sexual assaults on campus have not been...

    Tags: Assault, Sexual Assault, Students, Sex Crimes, Prosecution

    10. Jan 27, 2012 |Story| Petoskey News

  10. Medical records conversion still has bugs

    WASHINGTON (AP)— America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system’s conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue. 
    WASHINGTON (AP)— America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system’s conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue. ...

    Tags: Family, Barack Obama, Medical Procedures and Tests, Companies and Corporations, Medical Research

    11. Dec 23, 2011 |Story| Glendale News Press

  11. Answers sought in legality of Station fire phone recordings

    Rep. <a id="PEPLT007495" class="taxInlineTagLink" title="Adam Schiff" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/adam-schiff-PEPLT007495.topic">Adam Schiff</a> (D-Burbank) pressed federal authorities Thursday to clarify whether the U.S. Forest Service violated privacy laws by recording telephone calls to an emergency center during the 2009 Station fire.
    Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) pressed federal authorities Thursday to clarify whether the U.S. Forest Service violated privacy laws by recording telephone calls to an emergency center during the 2009 Station fire. Schiff said a report he received from the...

    Tags: Forestry and Timber, Los Angeles Times, Adam Schiff, Justice System, Judges

    12. Dec 2, 2011 | Chicago Tribune

  12. D64 employee diagnosed with whooping cough

    TribLocal - Des Plaines » News
    A Park Ridge-Niles District 64 employee who works at two schools has been diagnosed with whooping cough, but the illness has not spread to other …...
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