Ars Technica

FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants “data in near real time”

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced plans to buy nationwide access to a network of license plate readers, saying it will award contracts to one or more vendors that can offer “near real time ...
Bleeping Computer

McGraw-Hill confirms data breach following extortion threat

Education company McGraw-Hill has confirmed in a statement to BleepingComputer that hackers exploited a Salesforce misconfiguration and accessed its internal data. The company assured that the breach ...
Nextgov

Appeals court removes limits on DOGE access to SSA data despite ‘alarming’ revelations

The Friday decision follows a January court filing in which the government conceded that DOGE associates may have improperly accessed sensitive data at the agency. A federal appeals court vacated a ...
WKBW

iPhone privacy report: How to check which apps are tracking you and accessing your data

A built-in iPhone tool called the App Privacy Report shows which apps are accessing your camera, contacts, location, and microphone — and how often. Here's how to ...
KING5

UW researchers: Federal immigration enforcement still accessing Washington driver data

SEATTLE — Researchers at the University of Washington's Center for Human Rights say federal immigration agents are continuing to access Washington state driver and vehicle data to make arrests, ...
WSHU news

CT joins federal lawsuit to block DOJ from accessing voters’ data

A Connecticut voter has joined a federal lawsuit against the Department of Justice to prevent it from accessing voters’ personal data from the nonpublic voter file. The American Civil Liberties Union ...
KOIN 6

Oregon lawmakers join call to block ICE from accessing DMV data

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A group of Oregon lawmakers are joining an effort to block federal immigration authorities from accessing Department of Motor Vehicles’ state databases. On Wednesday, a group ...
The Verge

Democratic members of Congress are urging governors to block ICE from accessing their states’ DMV data.

A group of 40 lawmakers sent out letters today warning 19 Democratic governors that they might be unknowingly sharing DMV data with ICE and Homeland Security through a platform called Nlets, as ...
Wall Street Journal

Fed Lost Access to Private Jobs Data Ahead of Government Shutdown

Federal Reserve officials, who are unable to receive U.S. economic statistics because of the continuing government shutdown, recently lost access to a separate measure of employment data from a ...
No Jitter

AI is Accessing Data It Shouldn’t

It’s no secret that more and more enterprises are adopting AI, with 83% of the report’s 921 respondents reporting that they are already using it. However, 13% of respondents have strong visibility ...
TechCrunch

Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI — and training pipelines will love it

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to ...