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[ NNSquad ] How bad data can ruin lives
How bad data can ruin lives
http://j.mp/smEIrj (AP / Daily Finance)
"Two decades ago, if a county wanted to update someone's criminal
record, a clerk had to put a piece of paper in a file. And if you
wanted to read about someone's criminal past, you had to walk into a
courthouse and thumb through it. Today, half the courts in the United
States put criminal records on their public websites. Digitization
was supposed to make criminal records easier to access and easier to
update. To protect privacy, laws were passed requiring courts to
redact some information, such as birth dates and Social Security
numbers, before they put records online. But digitization perpetuates
errors."
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren
Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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