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Browder was arrested in 2010 after he was accused of stealing a man's backpack, and spent three years waiting for a trial to prove his innocence.

"That's insane," Judge Arlene Bluth exclaimed in court.

The NYPD stopped disclosing records that had been regularly available for decades just last month.

"This ruling is a problem for the right to privacy in this digital age where an increasing amount of our information is stored by third-party providers."

Today a judge awarded New York City summary judgement against two tobacco wholesalers who have been selling unstamped smokes to the Poospatuck indian reservation for years.