Matt Earle is an entrepreneur based in Toronto, Canada, and is the President of Reputation.ca, an online reputation management company. Managing your reputation may be simply removing yourself from ...

The Ministry of Justice and Digital Affairs plans to require public information systems handling personal data to adopt a tracker showing who has accessed it. A data tracker is a software solution ...

Public records are one of the few ways that criminal justice reporters can learn more about what happens in prisons, jails, youth detention facilities and ICE detention centers. There are few other ...

While an expansive array of records can be sought via a California Public Records Act request, the right to inspect public records is not without limits. The CPRA does not give unlimited access to ...

The New York Civil Liberties Union is suing the NYPD for the release of more disciplinary records of officers it requested in the spring, arguing the public database currently available offers an ...

The need to know is human nature. We have an insatiable appetite for discovery and revelation. Whether it's how an election was won or how the cake was baked, the more information the better. That's ...

A private company was thanked by cops for helping identify a suspect in the Faith Hedgepeth case. But is law enforcement’s use of public DNA databases ethical? This is the N&O’s special report. When ...

Kentucky’s Open Records Act mandates public agencies share existing records on request. Agencies must respond within five business days, with limited legal exemptions allowed. Citizens can appeal ...

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