Tag: Privacy

Bill seeks to prevent sale of student data

Rae Hodge · February 7, 2014 12:34 am

A Transportation Security Administration screener watches as a former TSA official goes through a full body X-ray scanner for a security screening in November 2010 at the Los Angeles International Airport. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Beltway Confidential

Abolish the TSA

Charles Hoskinson · January 31, 2014 5:00 am

Federal consumer bureau data-mining hundreds of millions of consumer credit card accounts, mortgages

Richard Pollock · January 29, 2014 5:00 am

Gov’t, Internet companies reach deal on disclosure

Jesse Holland · January 27, 2014 11:47 pm

There have been five incidents in the last six months where patients' health records have made their way out of some of Texas' 10 public psychiatric facilities, according to a review of state records by a newspaper.

Texas psych hospitals deal with privacy breaches

Washington Examiner · January 27, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama waves to the audience after he spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, at the Justice Department in Washington. Several of the key surveillance reforms unveiled by President Barack Obama face complications that could muddy the proposalsÃ? authority, slow their momentum in Congress and saddle the government with heavy costs and bureaucracy, legal experts warn. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

National Security

White House rejects privacy panel’s call to end NSA phone spying

Brian Hughes · January 23, 2014 5:00 am

Former President Ronald Reagan speaks by radio-phone from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in April 1984. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)

National Security

Mad about government spying and snooping? Look at Ronald Reagan’s executive order

Yael Ossowski · January 22, 2014 5:00 am

Wis. Assembly passes Internet privacy bill

Washington Examiner · January 21, 2014 9:59 pm

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Poll: 73 percent say Obama NSA reforms won’t boost privacy

Meghashyam Mali · January 20, 2014 5:00 am

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, in a ruling last month against the NSA, noted that "the government does not cite a single instance in which analysis of the NSA's bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive in nature." (AP File)

NSA’s mass surveillance proves pointless

Steve Chapman · January 19, 2014 5:00 am

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., comments about the vote on the defense spending bill and his failed amendment that would have cut funding to the National Security Agency's program that collects the phone records of U.S. citizens and residents, at the Capitol, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. The Amash Amendment narrowly lost, 217-205. The White House and congressional backers of the NSA's electronic surveillance program lobbied against ending the massive collection of phone records from millions of Americans saying it would put the nation at risk from another terrorist attack. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Justin Amash: ‘Nothing the president said today will end the unconstitutional invasion of Americans’ privacy’

Ashe Schow · January 17, 2014 5:00 am

Britain's High Court has rejected a bid by Google Inc. to stop a group of Internet users suing it for breach of privacy. (China Photos/Getty images)

UK court rejects Google bid to stop privacy suit

Associated Press · January 16, 2014 5:00 am