A new specter is haunting job seekers in the post-COVID-19 economy: “ghost jobs,” which are job listings by real companies advertising positions that do not actually exist or for which there is no present intention to hire. Ghost jobs do not simply waste the time and money of job applicants. They also reflect a new evolution in the harvesting and misuse of sensitive personal data, which inflicts privacy wounds on individuals while breaching...
Privacy Law
This Note addresses the ever-growing series of privacy laws being enacted throughout the United States and the danger that the “opt-out” data collection system poses to many populations. There is a disparity in the level of “digital literacy” throughout the United States, and as more consumer data privacy laws emerge and continue to replicate the existing legislation, that disparity deepens.
Patterns among who does and who does not...
Every state has a set of transparency statutes that bind state and local governments. In theory, these statutes apply with equal force to every agency. Yet, in practice, law enforcement agencies enjoy a wide variety of unique secrecy protections denied to other government entities. Legislators write police-specific exemptions into public records laws. Judges develop procedural approaches that they apply exclusively to police and prosecutorial records....