Penny Dean and Your Rights

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Until today, there existed such Fingerprint Biometric Readers that required your touch to authenticate yourself as an authorized person.

However, the latest research shows that the future of fingerprint scanners lies in a "no-touch" activity by an individual for gaining access.

Recently, NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) has funded a number of startup and companies to develop touchless Fingerprint readers.

The first major judicial ruling slamming the NSA's bulk collection of phone records has been overturned. In 2013, US District Judge Richard Leon ruled the program was likely unconstitutional, but held off on shutting it down until an appeals court could weigh in.

That's finally happened, and <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2301500/klayman-opinion.pdf">the appeals ruling (PDF)</a> shows the three-judge panel didn't see things the same way as Leon.

George Perrot has spent 29 years in prison for a rape he always said he did not commit. Until recently, it looked like he would die there.

Now, a single strand of hair stands between him and freedom. And that slender manacle may just have been snapped by federal authorities.

Even if you believe he’s guilty — as Hampden County prosecutors say they still do — there is plenty in Perrot’s case to trouble even the hardest of hard-liners, to shake our trust in those who are supposed to protect us.

If a workplace shooter comes to your office, you had better be able to run and hide because the police won’t be there in time to help you.

This headline from <a href="http://www.newser.com/story/212368/nypd-your-desk-wont-save-you-from-a-s... reads as if the police are doing us a favor by giving us helpful information: “NYPD: Your Desk Won't Save You From a Shooter.”

<img src="http://cfif.org/v/images/sections/when-persuasion-fails-gun-control-grou... align = "right">The clash between Americans who exercise their constitutional right to bear arms and proponents of gun control appears to be escalating. Restrictionists have lost in Congress and in all but a notable handful of states. They have lost in the courts of law. That leaves only the court of public opinion.

Three Atlanta police officers responded to a 911 call last night, but ended up going to the wrong house. In the ensuing moments, the homeowner was shot, his dog was killed, and one of the officers shot and injured another officer.

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — An innocent bystander accidentally shot by a plainclothes officer died early Saturday, hours after being wounded when the officer opened fire on a [replica gun] armed suspect during an undercover gun buy that went bad, New York City police said.

Felix Kumi, 61, of Mount Vernon died shortly before 1 a.m., authorities said. He was shot Friday afternoon after a man pulled a gun on an undercover NYPD officer during a probe into the sale of illegal firearms, officials said.

<img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/08/28/nyregion/28ABOUT/28ABOUT-maste... align="right" width="200">At 27, Adele Langkil, mother of a 4-year-old son in Virginia, got her first extended break from her jobs as a single parent and waitress when her parents took the boy for a weekend. She spent a few days in New York.

Refreshed, returning home to Virginia Beach, she checked her bag at La Guardia Airport. It was 1985 and airline screening was not as rigorous as it is today, but the authorities noted that there was a handgun in the luggage.

The 600 shots police fired at the chaotic end to a California bank robbery that claimed the life of a hostage were excessive, with some officers only firing their weapons because other officers were shooting, according to a report released Monday.

The report by the nonprofit Police Foundation also found some Stockton police officers opened fire with their colleagues standing right in front of them, and said a lack of planning was partly to blame for the unnecessary shooting.

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A Philadelphia police officer could be in serious trouble after video surfaced online that shows him pressuring a driver to buy tickets to a fundraiser - or else.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey told Action News that Internal Affairs is investigating the incident involving the officer, 32-year-old Matthew Zagursky.

He's a nine year veteran of the force assigned to the 24th District.