Cybersecurity
Spy powers overshadowed by Russia in Senate hearing
Officials testifying about the extension of a key surveillance program spent most of a Senate hearing dodging questions about President Trump.
Digital Government
I Bought a Report on Everything Known About Me Online
Data brokers collect and sell people’s personal information. How accurate is what they find?
Digital Government
Safari Browser to Offer Privacy Features
If you've been a Google Chrome or Firefox devotee, it might be time to switch browsers.
Digital Government
HHS Doles Out $100K To Help Consumers Share Their Own Health Data
Two projects won the Move Health Data Forward contest.
Modernization
One Way to Hide Your Data from Digital Border Searches
A popular password manager unveiled a feature to temporarily remove data from devices.
Cybersecurity
Can government stop using Social Security numbers?
Agencies are having trouble reducing reliance on Social Security numbers as identifiers because of outdated systems, insufficient funding and lack of coordination from OMB.
Modernization
Senate looks to tackle overseas data access
The Senate is exploring options to resolve conflicts when U.S. law enforcement has a warrant for electronic data that a U.S. provider is storing overseas and the host country has laws preventing the disclosure of the data.
Modernization
Trump taps House committee counsel for NTIA chief
David Redl, the chief counsel on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is President Trump's nominee to head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Modernization
Senate Staffers Can Now Use Encryption App Signal
The Senate embraces encryption once again.
Emerging Tech
GAO Lists Pros and Cons of Internet of Things for Congress
The agency examined the costs and benefits of the growing market, per a congressional request.
Digital Government
HHS’ Cyber Threat Center Comes Out of Beta Soon
The center will share threat information for small doctors offices to the largest pharmaceutical companies, and health care organizations in between.
Cybersecurity
You Cannot Encrypt Your Face
Democracy may be impossible in a world where no dissent is anonymous.
Digital Government
Who We Are As Data Might Soon Become More Important Than Who We Are As People
Online, you live in a realm functionally distinct from the world you thought you knew.
Digital Government
When Push Comes to Shove, How Quickly Will You Give Up Your Data for Convenience?
In the online world, it took us only a few years to get accustomed to the idea that firms can track our browsing behavior and predict our next steps.
Cybersecurity
House Judiciary to tackle email privacy, spy rules
Email privacy, FISA Section 702, overseas data and encryption top the House Judiciary Committee’s innovation and competitiveness agenda for the 115th Congress.
Digital Government
NSA halts Section 702 'upstream' collection
The NSA says it is halting "upstream" collection of email traffic that mentions targets of foreign surveillance after an internal review of "inadvertent compliance incidents" involving information collected on U.S. persons.
Digital Government
How to Stop Services from Snooping on Your Gmail
Do you know who's reading your messages?
Digital Government
Revelations of Uber’s Business Tactics Are a Good Reminder to Check Your Gmail Permissions
When an online service is free, you are probably the product that’s being sold.
Cybersecurity