In 2009, Congress asked for recommendations on what to do about information that falls outside the privacy law known as HIPAA. Health officials released their report, but offered no suggestions
Verizon is merging its cellphone tracking supercookie with AOL’s ad tracking network to match users’ online habits with their offline details
The National Security Agency's ability to capture Internet traffic on U.S. soil has been based on an extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: AT&T
The latest in ProPublica's “Killing the Colorado” series looks at how, despite decades of accepted science, California and Arizona still miscount their water supplies
The problems are as much structural and systemic as they are natural
The latest in ProPublica’s “Killing the Colorado” series looks inside the power plant fueling America’s drought
ProPublica's “Killing the Colorado” series examines a 139-year-old water law that pushes ranchers to use as much water as they possibly can, even during a drought
The spy agency’s warrantless surveillance program on U.S. soil has been expanded to search for signs of hacking, according to the latest classified document leaks from former contractor Edward Snowden
ProPublica examines the wheeling and dealing that Pat Mulroy has orchestrated over nearly three decades to find more water for Las Vegas and use it to help the city keep expanding
ProPublica examination shows that the scarcity of water is as much a man-made crisis as a natural one
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