Privacy Laws

DOWNTOWN — The Burbank Police Department has severed ties with three more police officers, bringing to 10 the total number of officers fired since the city initiated a probe into allegations of misconduct stemming from the 2007 Porto's Bakery...

Orange County Fire-Rescue released a recording this afternoon of a frantic 911 call seeking help for Tiger Woods' mother-in-law. "Hurry up. My mom just collapsed," a female caller said to an emergency dispatcher about 2:35 a.m. "Calm down for me for a...

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center has been fined $95,000 by state officials for failing to prevent unauthorized employees from accessing patient information, the latest in a series of privacy breaches at the prestigious hospital that has struggled to...

Michael Jackson’s legal team learned after his death that his medical records had been improperly accessed at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, according to a source close to the case. The source, who asked not to be identified, said it......

A German data protection official is challenging how Facebook Inc. handles data from people who have not signed up for its service without their explicit permission in yet another clash between a major Silicon Valley company and Germany’s strict data...

A UCLA professor who taught the student accused of slashing a female classmate's throat last week said Saturday that he told a university administrator 10 months ago that he had concerns about the student's mental health, but strict federal privacy laws...

The German town of Molfsee is trying to block Google from publishing photos of its streets. Credit: Carsten Rehder / EPAAdding to Google's recent spate of legal issues in the European Union, a group of government officials there sent a letter to the...

A group of businesses and advocacy organizations, including Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said Tuesday that it is calling for an update to a decades-old privacy law it considers...

For more than 2-1/2 years, Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer has sparked a flurry of headlines for celebrity tabloids. But it has also stripped the actress of her ability to seek treatment while maintaining her privacy, she said in an interview. In a...

Democratic state treasurer nominee Alexi Giannoulias said Wednesday he was "embarrassed" by earlier remarks he made regarding millions of dollars in loans his family's bank gave to a convicted felon, and he tried anew to explain a relationship that has...

ATLANTA - Data broker ChoicePoint Inc., whose enormous consumer-information file was breached last fall, said yesterday that it has hired a top official at the government agency that oversees airport screening to review the way the company screens its...