Last week, the Senate Judiciary committee passed the "The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2007" (See more in Security Fix, Federal Data Breach Bills Clear Senate Panel: Much of the debate over the relative strength of...

What, indeed, was the nature of the "program" before Goldsmith, Comey and Ashcroft -- those notorious civil libertarian extremists -- called a halt to it, and threatened to resign if the President continued to break the law? And...

I've been encountering some really silly software lately. I was trying to visit the homeland stupidity blog, with Safari and the most-excellent pithhelmet, and I get this message: We're sorry, but we could not fulfill your...

So the Office of Management and Budget sent a memo this week, "Safeguarding Against and Responding to the Breach of Personally Identifiable Information." The cool bit is that the memo directs agencies to act within 120 days,...

Here's detail from a InformationWeek story, "Hackers Blamed For Data Breach That Compromised 300,000:" A hacker broke into the computer network at the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation this past January...

Raiders News Network quotes an Interpol press release, "G8 Give Green Light For Global Biometric Database:" MUNICH, Germany – G8 Justice and Interior Ministers today endorsed a range of vital policing tools proposed by Interpol...

A man in the UK has been arrested somewhat dramatically for illegally using a WiFi connection. The BBC reports it here as "Man arrested over wi-fi 'theft'" and El Reg as "Broadbandit nabbed in Wi-Fi bust." Each is worth reading....