Requests from governments for people’s Facebook account data were overall on the rise in the second half of 2014, though they declined in the U.S. and Germany. The total number of requests rose ...

Facebook wasn't allowed to tell its users that their data was requested in over half of the cases. I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at PCMag.com. Reading this during the day? Then ...

Governments continue to ask Google for more data about its users, with more than two-thirds of requests in the U.S. made through a subpoena, which usually doesn’t require asking a judge for a search ...

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ROCHESTER — On a regular basis, Rochester Public Schools receives data requests from a third party asking for the district’s purchasing records: what supplies it’s ordered, who it purchased them from, ...

EVERETT — A new anonymous records request has left Snohomish County grappling yet again with technological challenges and huge demands on staff time. A person using the name Mr. Public Requestor ...

Institutional data are Hope College assets. Our goal is identifying these information needs and providing them proactively so questions can be answered using interactive fact books, longitudinal data ...

Last month, U.K.-based retailer FatFace made the news not for being the latest victim of ransomware, but instead for requesting that impacted customers not share details of the data breach with others ...

President Donald Trump is asking for voter names, addresses, party affiliation and voting records from all 50 states, part of an investigation into voter fraud by a commission he launched last month.

One resident noted concerns with a lack of transparency from city officials when making her plea to council to pass an ...

University faculty and staff as well as the general public may request institutional data from the Contact the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Research Administration. All requests must be ...