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Hey, You! Don’t Get Into My Cloud!!
In BC time (before computers), if you graduated from college and needed a transcript, you would contact the school, pay a small fee and ask them to send a copy of your grades to a prospective employer, for example.You would usually share some private information such as year of graduation and social security number to confirm your identity. It was simple and it worked.
That was yesteryear. Today, an informational deluge resides with various educational institutions, in everything from grades to health records. And because of technology and the sheer onslaught of record keeping, educational institutions are turning to cloud computing services to maintain, store and protect this torrent of information. The problem is simple. These companies hold some of the most private educational and related information about us, yet few guidelines dictate their use of our data.
Singleton Will Reintroduce Lisa's Law
A New Jersey lawmaker plans to again push for a law to let judges order electronic monitoring of domestic violence offenders and notify victims when an offender is nearby.
Governor Christie conditionally vetoed Lisa's Law in January, putting it on hold while the state attorney general determined whether the monitoring technology was available.
2 N.J. assemblymen re-introduce bill monitoring domestic abuse offenders
Two South Jersey assemblymen re-introduced a bill Thursday that would create a pilot program for monitoring domestic violence offenders — despite a report by the Attorney Generals Office that raises concerns about cost and how it would work.
The bill’s sponsors, Assemblymen Troy Singleton, D-Burlington, and Ron Dancer, R-Ocean, say they still believe there’s a way to use a GPS monitoring program to protect victims and alert them when an offender is close by. Both the victim and offender would have to be equipped with a GPS device.
Assembly committee cracks down on corporate tax-avoidance structure
An Assembly committee approved a Democrat-backed bill Thursday that would prevent the state or an independent authority from contracting a company that is structured to avoid paying taxes by having their corporate headquarters overseas.
The Commerce and Economic Development Committee voted 7-3, splitting along party lines, to pass the bill out of committee.
Assembly wants tax data restored to N.J. site
Looking to restore some transparency, the New Jersey Assembly has passed a bill directing the state to post online a complete summary of property tax data online every year.
Veto override of debt report bill falls short in Assembly
TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie’s more than five-year record of never having any veto overturned by the Democratic-controlled Legislature remained intact Monday, as an attempt to override his veto of a bill to expand an annual debt report failed to garner enough support.
State Assembly Targets Governor’s Suppression of Rebate Data
Legislation would require Christie administration to publish town-by-town data on net property taxes it removed from state’s website
Responding to the Christie administration’s controversial decision to delete town-by-town information on property tax rebates that had been published on the state’s website for 15 years, the state Assembly voted overwhelmingly yesterday to require the state to resume posting data that would show how much net property taxes grow each year.
Legislation would require property tax data disclosure
Legislation to require the state to annually post complete property tax data was approved 72-1 Monday by the Assembly and now heads to the Senate for consideration.
The bill comes after the Christie administration this year deleted property tax data traditionally found on the Department of Community Affairs web site. The information detailed Christie’s cuts to property tax relief that have resulted in a net property tax increase of about 20 percent.
N.J. Assembly fails to override Christie veto of bill requiring detailed data on borrowing
Six months ago, every Republican in the state Assembly voted for a bill that would have required more detailed reporting by the state about the long-term impact of its soaring debt. The bill passed unanimously.
But Governor Christie, a fellow Republican, vetoed the measure, calling any such debt analysis “highly speculative.”
Dems fail to pry sufficient number from abstemious GOP caucus to pass debt report bill
TRENTON - The Assembly this afternoon could not summon the necessary votes to override Gov. Chris Christie's veto of A961, as Assembly Minority Leader Jon Bramnick (R-21) prevented Democrats - some of them outraged - from peeling away an adequate number of his caucus members.