Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office is taking steps to
secure Ohio’s facial recognition program against hackers
after potential problems were found. The program allows law enforcement and other public officials to use a simple photo to search driver’s license and mugshot databases to get contact information. In the past, officials needed a name or address to search such databases. But the program apparently wasn’t following proper security protocols and lacked typical requirements for passwords, including a mix of upper- and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters, according to
The Cincinnati Enquirer . Previously, Gov. John Kasich
compared the program’s potential for abuse to breaches of privacy
made through federal surveillance programs such as the National Security Agency and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Tomorrow is the day of the mayoral primary, in which voters will decide between Democrat
Roxanne Qualls
John Cranley
Jim Berns
Sandra “Queen” Noble
. The two winners will move on to a head-to-head face-off on Nov. 5. Currently, Qualls and Cranley are widely seen as the frontrunners. It’s difficult to predict how many people will turn out to vote, but
only 21 percent of Cincinnati voters participated in the mayoral primary
in 2005.
aiming to innovate solar energy through his GoSun solar cooker
, which will use solar collectors traditionally seen on solar panels to cook food. Patrick Sherwin launched a
Kickstarter campaign
for the project on Sept. 5. He says his original interest in solar energy came from a desire to move away from harmful fossil fuels that are warming the planet, and this project gives him a chance to inspire a small cultural shift.
Councilman Chris Seelbach will today
introduce new legislation
that will help crack down on cellphone theft by making it more difficult to sell stolen devices. The initiative will require the hundreds of dealers who currently buy cellphones second-hand to get licensed with the city and keep full records of the transaction, including a serial number of the device, a photocopy of the seller’s ID and other contact information. Seelbach has likened the requirements to existing regulations for pawn shops. The hope is that cracking down on dealers will make stolen cellphones more difficult to sell and less lucrative to potential thieves.
remain in the search for Cincinnati’s new police chief
: acting Chief Paul Humphries; Jeffrey Blackwell, deputy chief of the Columbus, Ohio, Police Department; Michael Dvorak, deputy chief of the Mesa, Ariz., Police Department; and Jerry Speziale, deputy superintendent of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police.
turns away more veterans seeking aid than any county in Ohio
. In 2012, veterans asked for help 432 times; they were turned away nearly 40 percent of the time.
Although tax receipts are up, they’re
coming in below estimate
for the first two months of the new fiscal year. The lower-than-expected revenue could cause deficits in the state budget.
Ohio gas prices are rising toward the national average
.
Human babies are apparently hardwired to pay attention to lemurs
.
If you’re job searching, remember that a job interview can almost always go much worse:
This article appears in Sep 4-10, 2013.