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  • D.C. Court: Accessing Public Information is Not a Computer Crime

    April 15, 2018 - Good news for anyone who uses the Internet as a source of information: A district court in Washington, D.C. has ruled that using automated tools to access publicly available information on the open web is not a computer crime—even when a website bans automated access in its terms of service. The court ruled that the notoriously vague and outdated Computer    Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)—a 1986 statute meant to target malicious computer break-ins—does not make it a crime to access information in a manner that the website doesn’t like if you are otherwise entitled to access that same information.   The case, Sandvig v. Sessions, involves a First Amendment challenge to the CFAA’s ov...

  • Crime-Predicting Algorithms May Not Fare Much Better Than Untrained Humans

    April 13, 2018 - The American criminal justice system couldn’t get much less fair. Across the country, some 1.5 million people are locked up in state and fede...

  • When modernization gets in the way

    February 13, 2018 - I sent a researcher a request that I wanted help with. I thought it would be a good idea.   ----Me: Hello, Steven Brownstein here....

  • Crim-checker IT System Update Fail Has Cost UK Taxpayer

    February 06, 2018 -   MPs have slammed the IT overhaul behind the UK government's Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), which is running three years late resu...

  • About NCIC

    February 02, 2018 - About NCIC     The Files: The NCIC database currently consists of 21 files. There are seven property files containing records of...

  • What Is Illinois 1410/710 Probation?

    January 31, 2018 - The Illinois Cannabis Control Act and the Controlled Substances Act were enacted in 1971.    They specify two special types of pr...

  • Clean Criminal Record Necessary To Work In Jordan, U

    January 24, 2018 - by Nawal Sayed     Migrant workers wishing to work in Jordan and the UAE must have clean criminal records from their country...

  • A Popular Algorithm Is No Better at Predicting Crimes Than Random People

    January 18, 2018 - In February 2013, Eric Loomis was found driving a car that had been used in a shooting. He was arrested, and pleaded guilty to eluding an officer....

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