Privacy advocates plan to call on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to suspend use of "whole-body imaging," the airport security technology that critics say performs "a virtual strip search" and produces "naked" pictures of passengers, CNN has learned.
The Department of Homeland Security is now collecting scans of all 10 fingerprints from foreign travelers entering the United States at Dulles International Airport, and plans to extend the program to all international airports in the country by the end of next year.
A government watchdog is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate at least 13 occasions of alleged improper use of FBI surveillance, including searches and seizures of e-mail and bank records.
If we've learned anything from the massive consumer data breaches that have been reported this year, it's this: There isn't much protecting us from having our personal information exposed, traded or stolen.
The Social Security Administration allowed the FBI to search its files as part of the terrorism investigation after the September 11, 2001, attacks, according to government documents released Wednesday by a privacy group.
Northwest Airlines faces a class-action lawsuit and potential civil penalties after the No. 4 U.S. carrier acknowledged that it provided passenger information to NASA, according to a published report Wednesday.
Dear Annie: How private is an employee's e-mail? What can an employee do if he or she suspects that the company is snooping around in the e-mail? --Sleepless in Cyberspace
Privacy advocates plan to call on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to suspend use of "whole-body imaging," the airport security technology that critics say performs "a virtual strip search" and produces "naked" pictures of passengers, CNN has learned.
The Department of Homeland Security is now collecting scans of all 10 fingerprints from foreign travelers entering the United States at Dulles International Airport, and plans to extend the program to all international airports in the country by the end of next year.
A government watchdog is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate at least 13 occasions of alleged improper use of FBI surveillance, including searches and seizures of e-mail and bank records.
If we've learned anything from the massive consumer data breaches that have been reported this year, it's this: There isn't much protecting us from having our personal information exposed, traded or stolen.
The Social Security Administration allowed the FBI to search its files as part of the terrorism investigation after the September 11, 2001, attacks, according to government documents released Wednesday by a privacy group.
Northwest Airlines faces a class-action lawsuit and potential civil penalties after the No. 4 U.S. carrier acknowledged that it provided passenger information to NASA, according to a published report Wednesday.
Dear Annie: How private is an employee's e-mail? What can an employee do if he or she suspects that the company is snooping around in the e-mail? --Sleepless in Cyberspace
Tucked in the back of the December 20 Federal Register was a brief notice of a proposed IRS program called Compliance 2000. Out to cut cheating, the IRS proposed compiling a massive new database, f...
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