The Defense Department is changing how it uses military recruiting database information, following a settlement reached in a lawsuit brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union on behalf of five high school students. The suit challenged the legality of the manner in which DOD collected and used information in the Joint Advertising, Market Research and Studies, or JAMRS database, claiming it violated their privacy rights. The Pentagon reportedly has agreed to stop disseminating the information to other government agencies and to limit retention of the information to three years.
The Air Force is moving forward with a new, algorithm-driven system to help U.S. Northern Command better detect airborne threats. NORTHCOM and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which are tasked with protecting the homeland from attack, depend on a slew of radars and other data systems to monitor U.S.…