A roundup of faculty appearances in news sources and media from the last week.
6/6 – Professor Christopher Schmidt was quoted in a DeKalb Daily Chronicle article about Major League Baseball drug testing (“MLB aggressively taking on drug offenders“; may have to answer a question to read the full article).
6/10 – Professor Richard Kling was quoted in a Chicago Sun-Times story titled “Cook County authorities welcome U.S. Supreme Court’s DNA ruling” (requires account to access full article). The article highlights the ways in which Illinois jails and law enforcement agencies are putting the recent Maryland v. King ruling into practice.
6/10 – Professor Henry Perritt appeared on the CLTV show Politics Tonight to discuss recent controversies surrounding the government’s extensive surveillance of civilian phone and Internet data and to ask how that surveillance affects our privacy and security. Watch the discussion here.
6/11 – Professor Lori Andrews was quoted in a Washington Post article which also addressed privacy and security concerns in light of government surveillance (“In poll, the public is just fine with government snooping in the name of counterterrorism“). The article mentions Andrews’ 2012 book, I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy, which exposes the widespread misuse of personal online data by the government, employers, and data collection agencies and which seeks to equip readers with important information about privacy rights.
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