Wall Street Journal | The Trump administration has bought access to a commercial database that maps the movements of millions of cellphones in America and is using it for immigration and border enforcement, Read More
New York Times | EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized Read More
KCAU | The City of Sioux City said there was a data breach that could affect 3,563 of its customer accounts. Read More
Fox News | The city of New Orleans has launched a forensic investigation into the cyberattack that has crippled the city’s digital infrastructure for days. Read More
Vice | The California Department of Motor Vehicles is generating revenue of $50,000,000 a year through selling drivers’ personal information, according to a DMV document obtained by Motherboard. Read More
LA Times | Already besieged by problems including long wait times, the California Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday said it suffered a data breach in which federal agencies, Read More
LA Times | Transit authorities statewide have been targeted with lawsuits alleging that, among other privacy violations, information from toll-road transponders — think FasTrak — is being used to illegally market to drivers. Read More
WIRED | Early on August 16, a total of 23 local government organizations in Texas were hit by a coordinated ransomware attack. The type of ransomware has not been revealed, and Texas officials asserted that no state networks were compromised in the attack. Read More
NPR | It's been a bad summer so far for government information systems. Read More
Wall Street Journal | Local governments across the country are facing a growing threat of cyberattacks and escalating ransom demands, as an attack in this city has crippled thousands of computers for a month. Read More