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Professor Jane Kirtley's observations on the biggest data privacy breach to date involving alleged unauthorized access by police officers to Minnesota's driver's license database were featured in the lead editorial…
Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted by the Twin Cities Daily Planet in an article discussing Busted Paper and similar tabloids that publish mugshots. Kirtley pointed out that although some oppose online access…
Professor Jane Kirtley chaired a panel discussion on "Genocide and the Media," featuring scholars from the University of Colorado, Carleton University and the University of Minnesota at a symposium entitled "…
Professor Jane Kirtley participated in an invitation-only multinational conference, "Is Serious Journalism Still Possible?" at the Ditchley Foundation in Oxfordshire, England, where she also chaired the working group…
Professor Jane Kirtley discussed decisions by the Washington Post and New York Times to withhold, then to disclose, details about a secret U.S. drone base in Saudi Arabia. She described how…
In the Pioneer Press Friday Opinuendo column, Professor Jane Kirtley commented that Minnesota's C+ grade in the 2013 50-State Transparency Report Card issued by the Sunshine Review was not surprising,…
Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in a Star Tribune article about the Minnesota Supreme Court's ruling in McKee v. Laurion, a suit brought by a Duluth physician who claimed that a comment about…
Professor Jane Kirtley discussed a recent incident involving the confiscation of a bystander's video recording of Ramsey County sheriff's deputies in a public place in a Pioneer Press article. "I wish the…
Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted by Jon Tevlin in his Star Tribune column on two free speech issues: restrictions on proselytising at a holiday lights display in a Duluth park, and a Crow Wing County…
Professor Jane Kirtley was the principal speaker for a panel, entitled "Global Privacy and Advertising Developments," at the Practising Law Institute's Communications Law in the Digital Age 2012 conference in New…
Professor Jane Kirtley appeared on the "Privacy and Intrusion on Seclusion" panel at the 2012 Annual Conference of Ad IDEM/Canadian Media Lawyers Association, presenting a paper, "Intrusion on Seclusion: A Quick…
Professor Jane Kirtley was a guest on The Jordana Green Show on WCCO radio during the 9 p.m. hour, discussing the differences between political speech, hate speech, incitement to violence, and true threats in the…