18 MongoDB databases with information generated by accounts on several online social services in China have been sitting on the web ready for plucking by anyone knowing where to look.

By BROCK READIn the science of data mining, analysts search databases of computerized records to find patterns and clusters of information that might not be apparent at first glance. The process ...

Federal officials are launching a new program that will allow tribes access to national criminal databases and fix a system that allowed a man to buy a gun that was later used by his son to kill ...

The Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information, or TAP, will allow federally recognized tribes to enter criminal records into and pull information out of national databases overseen by ...

One of the facial recognition databases that the Chinese government is using to track the Uyghur Muslim population in the Xinjiang region has been left open on the internet for months, a Dutch ...

Prior to this expansion, the TSA relied heavily on the Secure Flight Program; a database in which the nation’s terrorist watch list is compared to a person’s date of birth, gender, name and ...

Author McKenzie Funk's new book, The Hank Show: How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine that Rules Our Lives, about the man behind the databases of personal information.