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OPINION: Will Harris be a watchdog of Internet giants?
The Sacramento BeeAttorney 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: Computer Hardware, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Google Inc., Media Industry
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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. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013 would require the government to...
Tags: Google Inc., Paula Broadwell, FBI, Telecommunication Service, Crime, Law and Justice
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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...
Tags: Virginia Tech, Health and Safety at School, Prisons, Health Insurance, Finance
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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 amendment to the Video Privacy Protection Act...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Crime, Law and Justice, Music, Science and Technology, Netflix Inc.
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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. While that may not sound like a big deal, the theft of our tax...
Tags: Robert P. Casey, Jr., Politics, Banking, Media Industry, Interior Policy
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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: Politics, Electronics, FBI, Crime, Law and Justice, Government
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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...
Tags: Education, Google Inc., Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Students, Public Schools
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Student investigation critical of how SMU handles rapes
Charles.Bassett@cw33.comIt’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: Health, Sexual Assault, Health and Safety at School, Prosecution, Assault
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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. ...Tags: Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Companies and Corporations, George W. Bush, Finance
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Answers sought in legality of Station fire phone recordings
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: Forests, Crime, Law and Justice, Forestry and Timber, Adam Schiff, Laws
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D64 employee diagnosed with whooping cough
TribLocal - Des Plaines » NewsA 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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