The first thing most of us think is, “Didn’t the company do a criminal background check or other ... in addition to unreliable data, stringent new federal and state rules on privacy the ...

Most importantly, the introduction of digital data storage also changed the way we produce, manipulate and store information. The transition point took place in 1996 when digital storage became ...

That's because a background check of his criminal record ... Easy access to masses of digital data that never goes away also means that people are less able to make a clean start in life even ...

As a scholar of digital data, I know that not all data loss — the corrosion and destruction of our digital past — is tragic. But much data loss today occurs in ways that are deeply unjust and ...