A Lake County Sheriff’s Office civilian employee was ordered to perform community service rather than being prosecuted for using agency databases to search for information on her husband and his ...

The EU has renewed adequacy decisions with the UK, keeping the door open for free data flows between the two sides. Meanwhile, it is also considering an agreement that would grant U.S. border agencies ...

States may be inadvertently sharing drivers’ personal data with federal immigration authorities, according to a letter two U.S. senators and 38 representatives sent to 19 Democratic governors this ...

A 25-year-old with two-plus years on the force became at least the third Riverside County sheriff’s deputy this year to be accused of illegally accessing a computer database. Deputy Dakota Lasher ...

Original story from August 18th, 2025: If you’re a Gmail user, you need to be particularly careful right now as criminals are currently targeting Gmail accounts. Hackers from a group called ...

A screen shot from the Police Records Access Project database, which is now available to the public. The public can now search internal affairs documents and other police-misconduct records from ...

The Tea app data breach has grown into an even larger leak, with the stolen data now shared on hacking forums and a second database discovered that allegedly contains 1.1 million private messages ...

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...

A federal judge has restricted the Department of Government Efficiency's access to federal databases, citing a "breach of law and trust." Led by the American Federation of Government Employees, a ...

Despite an Illinois law prohibiting data sharing agreements between state law enforcement agencies and federal immigration authorities, the Illinois State Police makes available the names and ...