A whistleblower complaint alleges that a former U.S. DOGE Service software engineer claimed to possess highly sensitive Social Security data on a personal thumb drive and intended to transfer the ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement arm is ...

The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to gain access to a trove of federal information that is intended to support the collection of child support payments but could potentially be used for ...

Public health systems sit on mountains of data — yet insight remains scarce. The organizations closing that gap aren’t just investing in better dashboards. They’re fundamentally rethinking who gets to ...

As more and more Americans turn to generative AI tools to answer their questions, federal officials are working to ensure that third-party chatbots can more easily rely on public data to inform ...

A single user inappropriately accessed private data within the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) ecosystem, potentially impacting 303,965 individuals, officials report. Unlike ransomware ...

Microsoft 365 makes sharing so convenient it can quickly get out of control. Most organizations have no idea what their users are sharing or with whom, putting company data at risk. Learn how to ...

Are you among those who receive the frustrating error message “You must start Microsoft Access by double-clicking a Microsoft Access file” when trying to open the ...

SEATTLE — A new report found that the Washington Department of Licensing (DOL) shared drivers' personal data with federal immigration enforcement agencies (ICE), using a system administered by ...

More than a half dozen years after Washington began limiting access to driver’s license data for immigration enforcement, federal officials were still using the information for immigration arrests as ...