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A Nevada school is charging a dad thousands of dollars to get access to the school’s personal data on his own son. When the father of four attempted to convince the state board of education to share multiple years of ...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) wants to collect data about your personal life and sell it for profit, according to a chief marketer. Data mining is one of just several schemes the money losing agency has hatched in an ...

Monsanto, one of the largest biotech companies in the world, is reportedly paying large sums of money to garner massive amounts of data about farms. The agricultural industry data mining is part of a “Smart Farms” effort which could soon ...

The FBI is increasing its scrutiny of both visitors to the United States and American citizens under a new plan. The federal agency is in the process of hiring nearly 120 new full-time private contractors to “amass and screen data” ...

Thanks to new technologies, it is easier than ever for big business, big government and almost anybody else to monitor nearly every aspect of your life. The National Security Agency’s use of metadata to monitor telephone conversations and emails is ...

Most of us are aware of the Pandora’s Box that has been opened in terms of personal data mining. We are cautious in filling out store loyalty card applications, and we try our best to safe-guard of our online passwords ...

For the first time since 9/11, Americans are more concerned about the government invading their privacy than they are about terrorism. That’s according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center, which conducted the survey in light of revelations ...