privacy

Several measure could be revived in legislature’s fall veto session

Illinois lawmakers are being urged to pass tougher laws to protect student data privacy. On Tuesday, they heard stories from parents who say they have no…

Time is running out on Governor Bruce Rauner to act on a bill that would change the way websites track a user's location and how they store that data.…

"Aetna's privacy violation devastated people whose neighbors and family learned their intimate health information," a legal group representing customers says. Aetna calls its mistake "unacceptable."

The issue pits business interests against privacy concerns.For Carolyn Parrish, a privacy professional based in Evanston, data privacy is just as…

The state has some of the most aggressive protections for transgender people in the country, but the issue still generates controversy here.Illinois, with…

It doesn’t take much time at all, fractions of a second, to be marked and mapped, recorded and reported.The automatic license plate reader cameras don’t…

The question of just what happened in Ferguson, Missouri before the shooting death of Michael Brown has renewed a push in Illinois to equip police with…

Since 2009, government agencies in America have lost more than 94 million records containing citizens’ information. In light of the news this year that…

Everyone knows Illinois has the largest pension debt and worst credit rating in the nation, right? So obviously its elected officials, especially Gov. Pat…