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5 May

New York City Courts release 2005 report

The Criminal Court of the City of New York issued their 2005 Annual Report of court operations. It sounds dry but actually encompasses a wide range of useful information. You’ll find descriptions of legislative changes to criminal law in 2005,...
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4 May

Alabama removes social security numbers from public records

Alabama Governor Riley finalized legislation that will redact social security numbers from some newly filed public records. Read the press release. Under the new law, if a person does not give consent to reveal their Social Security number on a...
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4 May

Oklahoma marriage licenses retain social security numbers

The Oklahoma Administrative Office of the Courts issued an advisory on its Web site that marriage licenses are still required to list the parties social security number. In light of recent legislation and questions about the need to collect social...
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3 May

Louisiana legislature proposes altering police reports

The Louisiana legislature is considering SB 731, Prohibits the release of certain criminal information to the general public, which would remove the narrative portion of police reports from public access. This is the substance of the report, which describes the...
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3 May

FTC seeks permanent injunctions in federal court against phone subscriber data brokers

The Federal Trade Commission, with assistance from the major cell phone carriers, has filed civil suits in 5 federal jurisdictions against resellers of telephone call records, seeking to bar them from this activity and to press them to deliver, to...
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3 May

The benefits and dangers of the social security number – Congress subcommittee webcast

A live webcast will be viewable for the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection hearing, Social Security Numbers in Commerce: Reconciling Beneficial Uses with Threats to Privacy. The webcast (realtime video and audio) is only available at the...
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2 May

Debt collectors and cops do it – How will Congress wiggle off THAT hook?

Data brokers, responding to subpoenas issued by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee requesting their customer lists are delivering some surprising material. Apparently, law enforcement is among the customers of the resellers of customer phone records, depending on them...
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Regulation, Telco 1 Comment

28 Apr

Data on political and corporate financial links

The financial dealings and corporate connections of politicians are accessible through a recently launched Web site operated by the Center for Public Integrity. The news release describes the tool features and data sources. This aggregation of data on money influences...
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27 Apr

Federal telephone records act sails through House of Representatives

The federal legislation that will criminalize unauthorized access to telephone customer data is steaming toward passage. HR 4709, Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006 passed the House by 409 to 0, with 23 representatives not voting. I’d say...
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27 Apr

Colorado data brokers –more than one bad rap

A Colorado newspaper has revisited a couple of sore subjects for private investigators: the closure of that states’ public records, which I detailed last month [read RCFP’s update]; the information broker whose high profile antics set in motion the Gramm-Leach-Bliley...
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