The Secure Flight program to screen domestic air travelers was blocked by Congress after it acquired live personal data for testing. That program has since issued a privacy impact assessment, dropped ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday voted to wipe out funding for a Pentagon data mining program that the White House says is a critical weapon needed for the war on terrorism. Sen. Ted Stevens ...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials are seeking to monitor four out of every five U.S. consumer credit card transactions this year — up to 42 billion transactions – through a controversial ...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said Wednesday that it found no evidence that a computer data-mining program it operated before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks uncovered information that could have thwarted the ...

The House says the program could violate Americans' privacy. June 26, 2008— -- A Congressional panel voted Wednesday against giving the FBI $11 million it requested to expand a controversial data ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. For nearly a week, we've seen a series of leaks that have brought to light secret surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency.

Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, has asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to provide a detailed listing of all IT programs ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tourico Holidays, a global leader in wholesale travel brokerage, today announced that it has formed an elite team of computer scientists dedicated exclusively to a new ...

Data mining is both an art and science. Roughly stated, the purpose is to extract useful information from data. Data mining has been used for many years and in a number of different ways, however it ...