TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas election official says a multistate voter registration database the state manages is being reviewed for security concerns. The Kansas secretary of state’s office manages the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program database, the Lawrence Journal-World reported . The program contains voter registration information for millions of voters in more than 25
Kansas reviewing security for voter registration database
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US stocks move higher in afternoon trading; oil falling
Financial companies led U.S. stocks broadly higher Tuesday afternoon as investors weighed encouraging data on consumer confidence and housing. Industrial and retail companies also posted solid gains. Homebuilders rose. Only real estate stocks lagged. The latest batch of company earnings and deal news also helped lift the market. KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor’s 500
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Children’s Cabinet launches online education, work site
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois has turned to an online database to help form policy decisions on health, safety, education and work opportunities for residents younger than 25. Gov. Bruce Rauner’s Cabinet on Children and Youth inaugurated the dashboard Thursday. It will be a go-to resource for the public as well as member agencies of the
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Iowa agency to release data on new family planning program
DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa agency will release a report early next year designed to start measuring the impact of a new state-funded family planning program that excludes abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. The Iowa Department of Human Services plans to release program data on Jan. 8. The report will include information on patient
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Uber used tech tool to shield data from police outside US
NEW YORK — The ride-sharing company Uber confirmed Thursday that it had technology to shield company data when law enforcement raided its offices outside the U.S. Uber spokeswoman Melanie Ensign said this tool — no longer in use — could lock computers and smartphones and change passwords remotely from the company’s headquarters in San Francisco.
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Illinois delays sending voter data to multi-state program
CHICAGO — Illinois will postpone submitting fresh voter information to a controversial multi-state voter registration database because the Kansas-based program has not offered updated security plans, election officials confirmed Tuesday. The move comes as several states debate ending their participation in the free and voluntary Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program. It was designed in 2005
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Do Maryland police target minorities? The data can’t tell us
BALTIMORE — In an effort to track how police officers are treating minorities, the Maryland General Assembly passed a law requiring police departments to report whom they stop and search. But 17 years later, the statistics that the police departments around the state are filing are incomplete and unreliable, a Capital News Service analysis has
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Michigan State creating online hub of slave trade data
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University is creating an online hub of data and documents related to the slave trade. MSU says it’s using a roughly $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a website that links collections from numerous universities. It’s designed to allow people to search millions of
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NYC college creates state’s first slavery history database
NEW YORK — A City University of New York college says it has compiled the state’s first slavery records index. The New York Slavery Index , created by CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, provides records dating from 1525 through the Civil War. WNBC-TV reports the database includes records, documents, narratives and other sources
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Minnesota prosecutors object to giving data to Prince family
CHASKA, Minn. — Minnesota prosecutors say they’ll object to releasing data connected to Prince’s death because a criminal investigation is ongoing. KSTP-TV reported this week that attorneys for Prince’s family members are requesting access to investigative data as the siblings determine whether to file a wrongful death lawsuit. Prince died April 21, 2016, from an
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Budget bill likely would end Supreme Court email search case
WASHINGTON — The budget bill before Congress includes an update to federal law that makes clear that authorities with a warrant can obtain emails and other data held by American technology companies but stored on servers overseas. Passage of the Cloud Act probably would end a Supreme Court dispute between Microsoft and the Trump administration
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UnitedHealth Group joins blockchain pilot project
MINNEAPOLIS — UnitedHealth Group agreed to partner with a rival health insurer and one of the country’s largest lab testing companies in a pilot project to examine sharing health care data through blockchain technology. Minnesota-based UnitedHealth announced Monday that it will work with Kentucky-based Humana, New Jersey-based Quest Diagnostics and a New York firm called
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Newspaper analyzes Wichita police use of force data
WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas newspaper found that black residents are more likely to be at the receiving end of force by Wichita police than any other race. The Wichita Eagle analyzed newly released data that studies the Wichita Police Department’s use of force. The data revealed a Taser is used about once a week
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Ohio auditor subpoenaing data from closed online school ECOT
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The state auditor is subpoenaing computer data from Ohio’s largest online charter school to preserve information should the funding dispute that caused the e-school’s closure be followed by a criminal case, his office said Friday. The auditor’s office told the judge overseeing the process of closing the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow that
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AP Explains: What’s changing under new data privacy rules
Europe’s new data and privacy rules take effect a week from Friday, clarifying individual rights to the personal data collected by companies around the world for targeted advertising and other purposes. Years in the making, the rules are prompting companies to rewrite their privacy policies and in some cases, apply the European Union’s tougher standards
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