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You may want to stay anonymous online — that doesn't mean you can. Data crunching has grown so sophisticated and powerful, privacy researchers now warn that tracing identities from a pool of supposedly "anonymized" data is not just a possibility, it's a certainty."It is depressingly hard to try to anonymize data in a way that resists identification by a committed adversary," Arvind Narayanan, a pr...
A 23-year-old Washington, D.C. woman who alleges she was raped on a Marine Corps base just blocks from the U.S. Capitol said she never thought she’d be in danger among members of the military.“I thought I was going to a place where I would be safe,” said Karalen Morthole in an exclusive interview with NBC News. “In my head, I thought these are people who are supposed to be protecting me.”This week...
The small town of West, Texas, is making plans to move forward after being denied additional funds from The Federal Emergency Management Agency to rebuild after a deadly fertilizer plant explosion last April.Governor Rick Perry received a letter from FEMA on June 10th, rejecting his request to declare a major disaster declaration in the town of West, Texas. The letter stated bluntly: “It has been ...
With the United States Supreme Court set to announce its decisions on two landmark same-sex marriage cases later this month, a significant percentage of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans believe the issue is taking too much attention away from other gay-rights issues, an extensive new survey of LGBT individuals has found.According to a poll of 1,197 LGBT Americans conducted by the P...
With the United States Supreme Court set to announce its decisions on two landmark same-sex marriage cases later this month, a significant percentage of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans believe the issue is taking too much attention away from other gay-rights issues, an extensive new survey of LGBT individuals has found.According to a poll of 1,197 LGBT Americans conducted by the P...
Four employees of a home health care business were killed in a murder-suicide Thursday in St. Louis, police said.The gunman, a second man and two women, all in their early 40s to mid-50s, were found shortly after 1:45 p.m. in a business on the first floor of the Cherokee Place Business Incubator, which renovates buildings on the street and leases them as work spaces, police said. The victims' iden...
