WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with a digital-age legal dilemma: Can the U.S. government use a warrant to force a U.S. company – in this case, Microsoft – to turn over data stored in a server overseas? ...
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Read More »Big data has expanded to the criminal justice system. In Los Angeles, police use computerized “predictive policing” to anticipate crimes and allocate officers. In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, machine-learning algorithms are used to set bond amounts. In states across the country, ...
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Read More »NEW YORK — A federal appeals court said Tuesday it won’t rehear a panel’s decision letting companies like Microsoft refuse to turn over to the government customer emails stored overseas. The judges of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
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Read More »FAIRFAX, Va. — The police use of automatic license plate readers, photographing hundreds of license plates per minute and capturing the exact time and place of the photo, has become routine in law enforcement and is credited with helping to ...
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Organizations need a strong security strategy to keep their data safe from loss or hacking. Data breaches cause companies and individuals to lose millions of dollars each year and have become an increasingly common occurrence. Even the IRS recently reported ...
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Read More »The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced it has started making credit card complaint data available to the public in a searchable database. In announcing the database launch Tuesday, the CFPB said the goal was to improve the transparency and ...
Read More »As part of an effort to crack down on excessive pay to nonprofit executives, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s Task Force on Not-For-Profit Entities has requested these groups provide detailed information about compensation and justify their nonprofit status.
Read More »New York state is starting to seek data on salaries at nonprofit social service agencies that receive state funding and tax breaks while some of them are paying six-figure salaries.
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Read More »Should the government meet the same legal standard when obtaining digital information stored on third party servers - including the contents of messages sent through web-based email providers - as when seizing information stored at a suspect’s physical home or office?
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Read More »Metadata has been famously described as “data about data,” David Hricik, “I Can Tell When You're Lying: Ethics and Embedded Confidential Information,” 30 J. Legal Prof. 79, 81 (2006).
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Read More »The average hourly wage for a local manufacturing job is $15.17 an hour, down from $15.29 a year ago, while the average paid locally for unskilled hourly jobs was $9.89, up from $9.71 in 2010, according to the Rochester Business Alliance’s 2011 Annual Wage and Salary Surveys.
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Read More »Should law schools provide prospective students with more detailed and accurate job placement data and education costs? The Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association and ABA President Stephen Zack think so.
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