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The Sierra Times (TX)

July 2, 2006

GROESBECK, Texas - A Central Texas woman was recuperating at a Temple hospital after she reported being run off a rural road, kidnapped and then raped and beaten by her abductors, authorities said.

The 18-year-old woman was in stable condition Thursday following surgery. She had walked and crawled a half-mile to find help after her abductors left her for dead along a highway early Wednesday morning, authorities said.

New York Times

June 30, 2006

There is no link between foster parents' sexual orientation and a child's well-being, the State Supreme Court ruled.

Arkansas cannot bar gay men and lesbians from becoming foster parents because there is no link between their sexual orientation and a child's well-being, the State Supreme Court ruled Thursday. On a vote of 7 to 0, the justices agreed with a lower court judge that the state's Child Welfare Agency Review Board, which adopted the ban in 1999, had improperly tried to regulate public morality and had violated the separation of powers between the executive branch and the General Assembly, Arkansas's legislature.

News Target

by Mike Adams

June 30, 2006

Public trust in conventional medicine has plummeted to such an all-time low that the industry is now resorting to the threat of violence in order to market its services. Gunpoint medicine is alive and well in Seattle, Washington...

Where county law enforcement officers, prompted by Child Protective Services (CPS), arrested and jailed 34-year-old Tina Marie Carlsen for her "crime" of rescuing her infant from overzealous hospital staff who demanded they perform kidney surgery on the infant. Tina Carlsen was jailed for several days, during which she was unable to provide lifesaving mother's milk to her baby (which is crucial for a child's brain and immune system). She has still not been allowed physical contact with her infant son.

Information Week

by Gregg Keizer

June 28, 2006

Government agencies have 45 days to implement long-standing data security requirements, including encrypting all data on mobile machines, requiring token- or card-based authentication for remote access, and tracking data extraction from federal databases.

The White House has given federal agencies 45 days to beef up safeguards to prevent citizen identities from being lost or stolen, the latest reaction to the numerous data disclosures suffered by the government in May and June. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum last week to all federal departments and agencies reminding administrators of long-standing data security requirements, but also made new recommendations.

Jurist

by Joe Shaulis

June 28, 2006

A London-based civil liberties group has asked data-protection and privacy officials in more than a dozen countries to prevent the further release of confidential financial information to American authorities.

The watchdog group, Privacy International, said Wednesday that it had filed complaints in 13 European nations, as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, to ensure that the records are withheld from an CIA anti-terrorism program supervised by the US Treasury Department. In its complaints, Privacy International said the records disclosures had no legal basis and should be suspended "pending legal review."

Industry Week

June 28, 2006

Last week Ontario 's Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, released privacy guidelines for item-level consumer RFID applications and uses.

The concern with RFID tags is at the item level in the retail sector when the tags can be linked to personally identifiable information which can in turn facilitate tracking and surveillance of individuals. The guidelines aim to "alleviate concerns about the potential threat to privacy posed by this technology and to enhance openness and transparency about item-level use of RFID systems by retailers."

Computer World

by Jaikumar Vijayan

June 27, 2006

Two U.S. senators yesterday introduced a bill aimed at giving companies a national standard for protecting data and disclosing security breaches.

A bill introduced yesterday by Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) and Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), both of whom serve on the Senate Banking Committee, joins a growing list of data security measures now pending before Congress. The proposed Data Security Act of 2006 seeks to create a national data protection and breach notification standard. "This bill would require all financial institutions, retailers and government agencies to maintain strong internal safety protections for the data they hold," Carper said in a statement.

Computer World

by Patrick Thibodeau

June 19, 2006

The Programmers Guild is filing a stack of complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice against some 300 IT employers for discriminating against U.S. citizens.

The Programmers Guild charges IT employers are discriminating against U.S. citizens and permanent residents by placing advertisements that specifically seek "H-1B only" visa holders or workers who have student or L-1 visas. John Miano, founder of the Summit, N.J.-based Programmers Guild, said today that he has collected some 1,500 IT job advertisements in the past six weeks from a variety of online jobs boards that express preference for hiring visa holders.

Chicago Sun-Times (CO)

by Charlie Brennan

June 17, 2006

DENVER -- A common-law marriage in Colorado between a 14-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl is possible after an appellate court ruling this week.

That's the potential fallout from a Colorado Court of Appeals decision that overturned a lower court finding that 15 is too young for a girl to enter into common-law union. "Previously, Colorado law did not set [a minimum] age" for common-law unions, Harhai said. "That's why this is a new precedent."

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA)

by Lara Brenckle

June 16, 2006

The Allegheny County Sheriff's Office overcharged more than $2.5 million in sheriff's sale fees over three years, according to a county audit released Thursday.

The audit also found problems with accounting procedures for the roughly $10 million a month generated by sheriff's sales. Problems include transactions recorded by hand, lack of documentation, lengthy delays in receiving payments from buyers and releasing money to creditors, and lack of safeguards against theft.

      
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