Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, has asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to provide a detailed listing of all IT programs ...

Congressional appropriators have directed the Homeland Security Department's inspector general to investigate one of the department's data-mining projects, saying it appears to lack clear guidelines ...

Dozens of government data-mining programs collect private data about U.S. residents with few civil liberties safeguards, and some violate U.S. law, Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee ...

Dozens of U.S. government data-mining programs collect private data about U.S. residents with few civil liberties safeguards, and some violate U.S. law, Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary ...

Many government efforts go unnoticed because a 2007 law defines the practice too narrowly, nonprofit argues. Many federal efforts that arguably use data mining might be flying under the radar because ...

Dozens of U.S. government data-mining programs collect private data about U.S. residents with few civil liberties safeguards, and some violate U.S. law, Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary ...

As expected, Democrats are delving into the Bush administration’s programs and peeling back the covers.On Jan. 10, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s first hearing of the new Congress looked at the ...

The kind of pattern-seeking data mining and behavioral surveillance technologies that are being used by several federal agencies to identify potential terrorists are far too unreliable to be of any ...

Key senators introduced legislation yesterday that would require the government to disclose data-mining programs to Congress in an effort to protect Americans' privacy and prevent misuse of personal ...

NEW YORK -- When the head of the Transportation Security Administration recently disclosed that four airlines and two reservation systems shared personal data on passengers without their consent, ...