Many companies use Microsoft's Power App platform, and sensitive data for 38 million records was left exposed to the public for months, thanks to weak default security settings. Research conducted by ...

A publicly accessible and unsecured ElasticSearch server owned by the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department of the Chinese province Jiangsu leaked two databases containing over 90 million ...

The New York Civil Liberties Union is suing the NYPD for the release of more disciplinary records of officers it requested in the spring, arguing the public database currently available offers an ...

Nearly half of CDC-run public databases on federal health surveillance stopped or delayed updates in 2025, including many webpages on vaccinations, according to a study published Jan. 27 in Annals of ...

The authors recommend that minimal transparency standards should be adopted by federal databases, including displaying the current update status, with a rationale if paused. HealthDay News — Long ...

Nearly half of the databases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and ...

Public records are one of the few ways that criminal justice reporters can learn more about what happens in prisons, jails, youth detention facilities and ICE detention centers. There are few other ...

Before you hand your hard-earned money over to a business or independent contractor, you should do some research to make sure you are working with a reputable company. There’s plenty of information ...

A private company was thanked by cops for helping identify a suspect in the Faith Hedgepeth case. But is law enforcement’s use of public DNA databases ethical? This is the N&O’s special report. When ...

Modern technology has propelled us into the information age, making it possible to generate and record vast quantities of new data. 1 Advances in computing and communications technologies and the ...

The researchers found that 82 of the 1359 catalog records examined in October 2025 were previously updated at least monthly, with their status classified as either current or paused. HealthDay News — ...

Of 38 paused databases on Oct. 28, 2025, 33 were vaccination-related topics; only one was updated as of Dec. 2, 2025. (HealthDay News) — Long pauses in surveillance databases may compromise evidence ...