Counties work to hide personal data
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Identity theft concerns are pushing some counties to take down or black out personally identifiable information from their Web sites but the work remains a challenge.
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Local police are promoting a new software program designed to help parents track what their children see and who they talk to over the Internet.
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More than 4,500 votes have been lost in one North Carolina county because officials believed a computer that stored ballots electronically could hold more data than it did. Scattered other problems may change results in races around the state.
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Hospitals across the country grapple with infringement of patients' privacy caused by employees using camera phones.
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Researchers learn that social network users are willing to sell their personal data for site features.
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Computer thefts at Kaiser Permanente and at an Indiana health center may have exposed sensitive data on more than 45,000 people.
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GNUCitizen is describing an apparent vulnerability that could trick people into revealing personal data.
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A Louisana state agency acknolweedged that data stored on backup media lost from an Iron Mountain truck contained unencrypted personal data of state residents.
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A cell phone directory is in the works, along with legislation to keep it private. Is this a good thing?
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Organisations are risking seeing sensitive information ending up in the wrong hands, because they are failing to ensure that their unwanted PCs are properly datawiped.
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'Identity reconstruction' still possible Large databases do not adequately protect sensitive personal information, according to a statistics professor in the US, who says that individuals can still be identified despite attempts to anonymise them.â¦
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Industry group will offer a free program to help users find and eliminate illegal files.
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Some security experts question the difficulty of eliminating Social Security numbers from public documents, as contended by some county clerks in Texas.
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By John P. McDermott, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb. 3--Lifting what had been a nearly impenetrable veil of secrecy,  Google Inc. elaborated for the first time Friday about properties it is  considering in Berkeley County and the Midlands for large data-processing  centers.
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Census officials sought to reassure minority and civil rights groups Tuesday that the agency keeps names, addresses and other personal information confidential from other government departments. Some critics remained skeptical.
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The dusty shelves of your local library are going high-tech with tagging chips. Civil liberties groups warn of a privacy nightmare.
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A proposed law would require companies to keep detailed data about peopleâs Internet and phone use that goes beyond a European Union directive.