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...says he is none too pleased about the outsourcing of student e-mail to Mail2World.“With any outside vendor, there’s a serious concern about privacy and data ownership,” he says, “which is to say that from a legal perspective and from a Harvard policy perspective, it’s necessary for Harvard to maintain ownership and full control over data even when it’s handled by an external organization.”Kroll, who says he has plans to pursue a Ph.D. in computer science...
...picture-perfect New York City moment, and it's only after the director yells "Cut!" that you'd notice that the faade over Gallagher's right shoulder is in fact the 100-year-old Ford Building in downtown Detroit. This scene, along with every other from the legal drama Betty Anne Waters, starring Hilary Swank, is being filmed in Michigan, the new Hollywood of the Midwest...
First, there was the case of "hide and seek." Then there was the "nightmare" and the "shower case." As the improbable explanations for deaths of prisoners in China's criminal justice system grows, so have the doubts of legal experts and average citizens alike. The government has pledged open investigations into the deaths, but critics question its will to change the infamously opaque system. Beijing has launched a training program to improve the conditions of the country's jails, but legal experts argue that deeper reforms are needed to stem the violence...
...police and prosecutors would be extended to five months. Some critics argue that the system needs more fundamental reforms before it can begin to reduce prison deaths, and that the ultimate blame lies with police, not rogue inmates. Because many of the victims have been suspects, not convicts, legal experts suspect the abuses are connected with the Chinese legal system's long-standing reliance on confessions to secure criminal convictions...
...lack of guaranteed rights of the accused means detainees are frequent targets of abuse, either in the form of violent interrogations or beatings at the hands of other prisoners, legal experts say. Most suspects are now kept in detention centers run the Public Security Bureau, but moving them to the custody of judicial officials could lessen the likelihood of abuse. "Oral confessions should not be used as evidence any more," Liu says. "And detention centers should be overseen by judicial administrative offices, instead of the police." Until the government enacts those fundamental reforms, then the list of China's jail...