European court rules DNA database breaches human rights

The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that keeping a database of DNA samples of people not convicted of any crime is unlawful. As a result of the ruling, the DNA records of hundreds of thousands of people in the UK will have to be thrown out."Police forces in much of...

Data-Mining for Terrorists Not 'Feasible,' DHS-Funded Study Finds

Homeland Security report finds datamining isn't feasible for catching "terrorists"."The government should not be building predictive data-mining programs systems that attempt to figure out who among millions is a terrorist, a privacy and terrorism commission funded by...

Google Launches Audio Indexing

Google has a new app in beta called GAudi, which is going to crawl political youtube vids and make transcripts searchable."As the Web becomes more sophisticated and audio and video becomes a more important part of our online lives, we need something that will help us sift...

Student aid records exposed in Internet security breach

The privacy of 90 post-secondary students has been compromised in a security breech of a student aid records database at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland.  The security breech was detected after students using an online form reported that they could see...

Man charged in rape, slaying of Florida girl, 6

"TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- A man already in prison for burglary and stealing a car was charged Tuesday in the rape and slaying of a 6-year-old southwest Florida girl nearly two years ago, police said. ...