Car License Plate Scanning Has Public-Private Partnership Seeing Profits

1927 California license plate. photo: Wikimedia Commons

The units work by sounding an in-car alert if the scanner comes across a license plate of interest to police, whereas before, patrol officers generally needed some reason to take an interest in the vehicle, like a traffic [...]

Electronic Health Systems Carry Libel Risk

By Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz Huffington Post Investigative Fund One day in March 2009, hospital workers misread small print on a computer screen, causing them to dispense 10 times the prescribed dose of a drug. Result: The [...]