The Fourth Amendment generally requires the government to get a warrant before searching your private information, but government agencies are circumventing the intent of the Constitution by simply ...

SEATTLE — A new report found that the Washington Department of Licensing (DOL) shared drivers' personal data with federal immigration enforcement agencies (ICE), using a system administered by ...

Electrical substation infrastructure increasingly sits at the front of data center project planning as utilities tighten grid access and require major power upgrades ...

Automatic Data Processing (ADP) ended its data-sharing collaboration with the Federal Reserve after a recent speech highlighted their partnership, resulting in the Fed losing access to ADP's ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order to acquire "information concerning the identification and ...

When people think of Social Security, they typically think of monthly benefits — for the roughly 69 million retirees, disabled workers, dependents and survivors who receive them today. But efforts by ...

WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday permitted the Department of Government Efficiency, a key player in President Donald Trump's drive to slash the federal workforce, broad ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. The FBI has confirmed it wants “lawful access” to fully encrypted ...

A federal judge has once again blocked Department of Government Efficiency staffers who are operating inside the Social Security Administration (SSA) from accessing sensitive personal information of ...

Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts. By Emily Badger and Sheera Frenkel The federal government knows your mother’s maiden ...