Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts. By Emily Badger and Sheera Frenkel The federal government knows your mother’s maiden ...

A Stats NZ manager says the 15-year-old Integrated Data Infrastructure system is a "rich resource".

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Here’s an open secret: the U.S. government collects vast amounts of data on every person living in the country. If you bank, use transportation, walk outside your home, pay taxes, or do any regulated ...

Operatives from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are building a master database at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that could track and surveil undocumented ...

A number of organizations, including Harvard University, have begun taking steps to preserve data files and other information as the Trump administration continues its sweeping purge of federal ...

People rely on data from federal agencies every day – often without realizing it. Rural residents use groundwater level data from the U.S. geological survey’s National Water Information System to ...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has issued Executive Order (EO) 119 to update the government’s decades-old data classification ...

Vast quantities of climate and environmental information have been removed from official websites in the past months. Scientists are trying keep it available. By Austyn Gaffney Amid the torrent of ...

Security experts are hugely nervous about the government's latest database plans, and have pointed out numerous grave security concerns over two of its proposed schemes. The Home Office announced in ...