If Big Brother has a dream, this is it. Creeping its way slowly through Washington’s corridors of power recently has been a proposal that would allow the federal government and the higher-education ...

MariaDB plc, a company that commercializes the open-source relational database of the same name, has received takeover interest from K1 Investment Management. The software maker disclosed the ...

Police in the U.K. are in talks with the FBI about establishing an international biometric database for tracking down the world's most wanted criminals and terrorists. The so-called "server in the sky ...

The state Criminal Justice Commission would create a new public database that captures reports on the use or threatened use of force by each police or corrections officer, under a bill heard by an ...

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai proposed the creation of a comprehensive reassigned numbers database, addressing a significant compliance challenge under the TCPA. The TCPA’s prohibitions on the use of ...

The Labor Department issued a proposal April 15 laying out how it will collect information from 401(k) retirement plan administrators to set up a lost-and-found retirement database. SECURE 2.0, the ...

Draft legislation that would strengthen some copyright-like protections on the contents of commercial databases met with skepticism from members of two U.S. House subcommittees Tuesday, despite ...

The American Bankers Association was one of the biggest proponents of a new corporate ownership registry, saying it hoped the project would help cut regulatory costs for its members. But the industry ...

Enrolling in college soon could place you on a federal registry. As first reported in the Nov. 26 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education and later by The New York Times, a recent Department of ...

Glenn Beck claimed on his radio show that President Obama's health care reform proposal “order[s] a comprehensive database on health claims, so everything that you do is going into a computer database ...

His mother, Michelle Kenney, is convinced: If a measure to create a database of police misconduct had been embraced by lawmakers when it was introduced shortly after her son’s death, “we could have ...