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Carmen Ortiz Discusses Aaron Swartz Case Prosecution Justification

Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, said Thursday the government. The President Barack Obama appointee The link for this article located at Wired is no longer available. . The President Barack Obama appointeeThe link for this article located at Wired is no longer availabl. carmen, ortiz, attorney, massachusetts, thursday, government, president, barack. . Dave Wreski

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Virginia Nine Year Sentence for Junk Email Spammer Jeremy Jaynes

A Virginia judge sentenced a spammer to nine years in prison Friday in the nation's first felony prosecution for sending junk e-mail, though the sentence was postponed while the case is appealed. . Loudoun County Circuit Judge Thomas Horne said that because the law targeting bulk e-mail distribution is new and raises constitutional questions, it was appropriate to defer the prison time until appeals courts rule. A jury had recommended the nine-year prison term after convicting Jeremy Jaynes of pumping out at least 10 million e-mails a day with the help of 16 high-speed lines, the kind of Internet capacity a 1,000-employee company would need. Jaynes, of Raleigh, N.C., told the judge that regardless of how the appeal turns out, "I can guarantee the court I will not be involved in the e-mail marketing business again.". A Virginia judge sentences a spammer to nine years for the first felony case of its kind, awaiting appeals decision on the law.. Spam Case, Email Marketing, Legal Precedence, Justice System. . Brittany Day

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Identix Case: Legal Action Over Biometric Records Impacting Lives

At San Jose Superior Court today (11 May) biometrics company Identix will seek to have a product liability and slander lawsuit against it and the States of California and Oregon dismissed. Plaintiffs Roger Benson and Miguel Espinoza are seeking restitution for the damage inflicted on them by duplication in police records which gave them other people's criminal records. . . .. At San Jose Superior Court today (11 May) biometrics company Identix will seek to have a product liability and slander lawsuit against it and the States of California and Oregon dismissed. Plaintiffs Roger Benson and Miguel Espinoza are seeking restitution for the damage inflicted on them by duplication in police records which gave them other people's criminal records. Benson was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 days for carrying a firearm when a convicted felon, although the felony on his record had been committed by someone else, while Espinoza, had his restaurant business destroyed by a false record of a criminally negligent homicide conviction. The plaintiffs claim that their problems stemmed from Identix's Livescan 10-print, a fingerprint scanner used to enter fingerprint data into police systems. Two months ago Identix was re-confirmed as the winner of a Department of Homeland Security Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for fingeprint systems, this being worth and estimated $27 million over five years. Identix is also supplying equipment for the UK Passport Service's ID card pilot, so one might reasonably consider that the stakes in San Jose Superior Court will be rather high. The case hinges on the origin of duplicate record ID numbers, but it is the fact that these actually existed that is of the broadest significance. Benson, whose case has been going through the courts longest, stepped into trouble when he was pulled in for a traffic violation and fingerprinted. This process was carried out using a Livescan system, which produced an Electronic Fingerprint Card (EFC). Each EFC is assigned a fingerprint control number, FPN, which isintended to be unique. Previous paper-based systems, which are still widely used in the US, use EFCs preprinted with a unique FPN, but this is not the case with EFCs produced with the Livescan system. Benson's EFC was created on February 6th 1998, and on September 10th 1998 one William Lee Kellog, charged with multiple felonies, was put through the booking process. Kellogg's EFC had the same FPN as Benson's. FPNs are widely used in criminal justice databases, and the duplicate records entered the Oregon Judicial Information Network (OJIN), where Kellogg's convictions were attached to Benson's record. A routine inspection in California the next year uncovered a handgun in Benson's truck, and as his Oregon record said he was a thrice convicted felon, he was arrested for being in violation of the California Penal Code. The plaintiffs' complaint alleges that the defendants have known since 1996 "that Livescan machines had the identified propensity of creating defective EFCs," and that they therefore knew that this was corrupting criminal justice databases and court records. It is not clear from the evidence presented that the blame rests entirely with the Livescan equipment, but it does seem clear that Oregon was aware that duplication incidents were occurring (a list of 97 of these was compiled), and it has certainly taken Benson some considerable time, against considerable opposition, to clear his name. The link for this article located at TheRegister is no longer available. . At San Jose Superior Court today (11 May) biometrics company Identix will seek to have a product lia. superior, court, today, biometrics, company, identix, product. . Anthony Pell

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