One of the changes that we expect to see in the coming years, is the creation of more public repositories of personal data. By personal, I mean data like Name, Date of Birth, Address, Bank Account ...

Matt Earle is an entrepreneur based in Toronto, Canada, and is the President of Reputation.ca, an online reputation management company. Managing your reputation may be simply removing yourself from ...

More than three years ago, I wrote about SearchSystems.net: A good way to find public information online is by using this service from Pacific Information Systems. With links to almost 5,000 public ...

With the continued growth of the public DNA sequence databases, and the recent addition of the 11,000,000,000th nucleotide to GenBank (including DDBJ, EMBL and GenBank), it is timely to assess how we ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – By providing free consulting and some software, Google Inc. is helping state governments make reams of public records that are now unavailable or hard to find online easily ...

Let’s be careful not to shortchange the free flow of public data in the rush to pass new privacy. In 1997, the Federal Reserve Board told Congress, “It is the freedom to speak, supported by the ...

In a world where information is easily accessible with just a few clicks, it is no surprise that people searches have become a popular tool. With TruePeopleSearch.io, users can search billions of ...

WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have mined state driver’s license databases using facial recognition technology, analyzing millions of motorists’ photos without their ...

Eight unsecured databases were found leaking approximately 60 million records of LinkedIn user information. While most of the information is publicly available, the databases contain the email ...