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The friction between state and federal laws isn’t new. But it’s escalating as state-level privacy activity grows in the absence of action from Congress.
Israeli tech firm NSO denies media reports that its software has been sold to authoritarian regimes.
The government doesn’t do much to verify the security of software from private contractors. And that’s how suspected Russian hackers got in.
How does "unreasonable search" work when any agency can buy data from anywhere?
Every day government decisions from bus routes to policing used to be based on limited information and human judgment. Check out our new database and join MuckRock in learning more about these uses.
A Dutch court halted a program to identify people more likely to commit benefits fraud. Critics said it discriminated against immigrants and low-income residents.
There's a new awareness among them about the dangers of the cashless society.
The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people’s lives culled from conversations between police, social services, health workers, and more.
Updated: An Oklahoma Department of Securities server allowed anyone to download government files.
We found hundreds of local council workers willing to give out login details for government systems without realising.
Activists have asked Google to disable the feature on government accounts.
Local governments don’t pay much attention to cybersecurity, leaving them vulnerable to hijacking as happened to Atlanta and Baltimore.