Virginia Tech Report Cites Privacy Law Problems
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Confusion over what officials can legally tell one another has limited their ability to prevent the kind of violence that occurred at Virginia Tech, according to a federal report.
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A Congressional inquiry into online data brokers has raised concerns that federal and local law enforcement may be skirting privacy laws to obtain calling records
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Data on more than 100 million U.S. consumers has been compromised in the past two years, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has made progress on data security since last May's laptop theft, but still needs to address a variety of shortcomings, government auditors say.
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While many high-tech firms scored well in a new study of how they treat customers online, more than a third of the surveyed companies still share personal data without permission.
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A Beijing college student claims that Microsoft's antipiracy program violates his privacy, according to a Chinese government-controlled news site.
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When Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho committed suicide, he not only foreclosed any opportunity for officials to question him about his killing spree, but also ensured that his mental health records will remain secret &#151; at least until a court says otherwise.
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE  SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
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Up to 800,000 of the school's students, faculty and alumni may be vulnerable to identity theft.  What went wrong, and what can be done about it?
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The apparent release of searches made by hundreds of thousands of users is raising privacy concerns.
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Sensitive data for virtually all Louisiana college applicants and their parents over the past nine years were in a case lost last month during a move, officials said.
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A congressional inquiry into online data brokers has raised concerns that federal and local law enforcement may be skirting privacy laws to obtain calling records
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Personal information on more than 5,700 current and former faculty members at the University of Virginia may have been stolen by hackers who accessed the data multiple times over a period of almost two years.
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As new disclosures mount about government surveillance programs, computer science researchers hope to wade into the fray by enabling data mining that also protects individual privacy.
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The European Union investigates whether saving search data violates privacy laws.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
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Facebook's Beacon service, which shares information about users' purchases and video rentals, may violate the Video Privacy Protection Act, a law professor claims.