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Experten befürchten eine "Datenschutzkatastrophe". ©pixabay.com (Sujet) Die Regierung plant eine Forschungsdatenbank. Die Experten der Datenschutz-NGO "Epicenter.works" warnen dabei jedoch vor einer "Datenschutzkatastrophe". Die Regierung plant eine Datenplattform, die zahlreiche Daten von Bürgern bündelt und Institutionen für Forschungszwecke zur Verfügung stellt. Für die Datenschutz-NGO "Epicenter.works" ist das Vorhaben eine regelre...

Mega-Datenbank für die Forschung soll entstehen ©APA/dpa Die Regierung plant eine Datenplattform, die zahlreiche Daten von Bürgern bündelt und Institutionen für Forschungszwecke zur Verfügung stellt. Für die Datenschutz-NGO "Epicenter.works" ist das Vorhaben eine regelrechte "Datenschutzkatastrophe". Sie ortet im vorgelegten Gesetzesentwurf "gravierende Mängel aus Datenschutzsicht und das Risiko für den Missbrauch an einer enormen Menge ...

Bund hält seine Daten-Schatulle für Google offen Geo-Daten des Bundes sollen weiterhin für alle Unternehmen gleich zugänglich sein, auch für Google und Co... (Bild: Screenshot geo.admin.ch) Der Bundesrat will nicht, dass Schweizer Unternehmen von den Meteo- oder Geo-Daten des Bundes bevorzugt profitieren sollen. Die kostbaren staatlichen Datenbanken sollen weiterhin auch den globalen Digitalkonzernen offenstehen. Mit einem Bericht reagierte der Bundesrat am Mittwoch auf ein Postulat von ...

As the midterm elections rapidly approach, theres been a rash of voter identification conflicts in states across the country. in north dakota, a new supreme court decision requiring residents to provide a street address in order to vote has been criticized for discriminating against native americans. some tribes argue that street addresses arent always assigned on native american reservations. in missouri, a county judge stripped a voter law of several provisions including the statute forcing pe...

Message requiring photo i.d. at the polls. they are new suing brian kemp, georgias secretary of state and also the republican candidate for governor for voter suppression. after an associated press investigation discovered that some 53,000 new applications have been placed on hold for not meeting his offices standards. the states exact match protocol requires information on voter registrations to precisely match the information on file with other state databases. like the dmv. critics say the po...

Wranglings over this. brian kemp has denied the charges. a lawsuit has been filed. how do we expect this to play out over the next 25 days? >> well, its unclear how the courts will rule in the case of the 53,000, georgians who sought to register to vote in this upcoming election and whose registrations have now been placed in jeopardy by this controversial exact matching program. what i will say is that its my understanding that these registrants can still vote in the upcoming election, and i ju...

Your reaction to the presidents statement? >> well, it is breathtaking. what you just mentioned, not only was this an attack on the dnc, this was an attack on democracy. the attack on state election boards, the efforts to infiltrate secretaries of state databases. this was an attack on our democracy. and this president knew about it before he left for his trip to europe. and he was still calling it a witch hunt. it is anything but a witch hunt, it is a frontal attack. it is not about republicans...

To say that we know he omitted all the contacts we had with russians and there were quite a few of them. thats not just clerical. >> another what are you going to to about dot dot dot, how about securing our deposition amocrac elections? we now know those trying to help russian interference actually got in to state databases, registration. no proof that they messed with any vote tabulations, god forbid, but, the threat is real. theres all this yip app going on. we still dont know about anything ...

In mesquite, nevada, the motive of 64-year-old stephen paddock, seen in this photo posted on facebook by his girlfriend, remains a mystery. >> weve checked all the federal databases and local databases and state databases. and we had no knowledge of this individual. >> reporter: his family remembers paddock as a man who grew up without conviction. >> steve had nothing to do with any political organization, religious organization, no white supremacist, nothing. >> reporter: the fbi says no connec...

Erin in those frightening numbers youre sharing is it appears he was stock piling in this retirement community, that he potentially could have done a large amount of damage with all of that ammunition and weaponry and explosives. but what is not clear is the motive, the why. when the s.w.a.t. team broke down the door of a room on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay casino, the gunman was already dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. leaving verinvestigators to question why he would gun down a c...