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 ...

Congressional appropriators have directed the Homeland Security Department's inspector general to investigate one of the department's data-mining projects, saying it appears to lack clear guidelines ...

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 ...

Dozens of U.S. government data-mining programs collect private data about U.S. residents with few civil liberties safeguards, and some violate U.S. law, Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary ...