FBI Reveals Widespread Abuse in Data Collection
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FBI says the agency violated rules more than 1000 times while collecting personal data since 2002--many more abuses suspected.
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The FBI has lost 160 laptops in 44 months, according to the inspector general for the  Department of Justice, which criticized the agency for losing the computers -- and for not knowing what secrets may have been kept on all of them.
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The FBI lost at least 10 laptop computers containing classified information during a four-year period ending in 2005, the Justice Department's inspector general has found.
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By LARA JAKES JORDAN WASHINGTON - More than 1 million computers - possibly yours, too - are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users' personal information, the FBI said Wednesday.
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Malware, carelessness, data leaks--whether internal or external threats, there's too many to count.
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Between three and four FBI laptops are lost or stolen each month and the agency often can't say whether data on the machines is sensitive or classified, according to the DOJ. By the Associated Press.
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Personal data on thousands of mostly U.S. residents were found exposed, ripe for spam and hacking.
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Hoping to trigger a federal investigation, a civil liberties group accused AOL of breaking a promise to protect its subscribers' privacy when the Time Warner Inc. subsidiary recently released millions of Internet search requests &#151; data that touched upon everything from Social Security numbers to murder plots.
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The FBI possibly violated the law or its rules more than 1,000 times since 2002 in collecting data about phone calls, e-mails and financial records while investigating terrorism or espionage suspects, FBI officials said on Thursday.
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Identity thieves who hit Monster.com's database earlier this month also stole the personal information of 146,000 people who use USAJobs, the federal government's official job search site.
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At least 10 current and former detainees at Guantanamo Bay have lodged allegations of abuse similar to the incidents described by FBI agents in newly released documents.
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The FBI has fielded almost twice as many complaints from mortgage lenders so far this year as it did for all of 2003, the bureau reported Friday.
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Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine reported on Monday that 160 weapons and 160 laptop computers were missing at the FBI. The report followed a 2002 audit that had revealed that hundreds of other guns and computers were missing. An excerpt from the new report:
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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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The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.
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Not only is the U.S. government keeping too many secrets, it's spending too much money to do it. That's the conclusion of a government watchdog group, which estimates more than $6.5 billion was spent last year keeping data under wraps. By Noah Shachtman.
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Some members discover itâs tough to erase all their information from the site.