Privacy

Federal court filings reveal that in January the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) improperly shared a dataset containing millions of Medicaid records —...

Vice President Vance postponed a planned trip to Switzerland intended for negotiating further terms of a U.S.-Iran peace process; President Trump and Iranian Preside...

A Department of Homeland Security Privacy Threshold Analysis reveals a mobile app called the ICE Task Force Module (TFM) that allows local police working with ICE to...

Fox News tech columnist Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson warns that many adults—especially older people—have personal details exposed on people-search and data-broker sites ...

Capital One announced that a vulnerability in its systems allowed an unauthorized person to access personal information from credit applications. The company discove...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about whether ‘geofence’ warrants—court orders that require tech companies to search their location databases for devices with...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that the Trump administration unlawfully created a centralized database that consolidated Americans' private records, incl...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded a $25 million no-bid contract to BI2 Technologies to expand the use of iris-scanning equipment by U.S. Immigration ...

The Commerce Department issued an order banning the use of "noise infusion"—statistical methods that add random variation to published data—from the Census Bureau an...

The House voted 198-218 on a motion to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for three weeks under a suspension-of-the-rules procedure; the...

The Guardian reports that newly disclosed internal investigative records show the U.S. Department of Homeland Security conducted an operation into groups opposing an...

The article explains that data brokers compile personal information from public records (property deeds, voter rolls, court filings, licenses) and commercial sources...