Data Privacy

At a joint news conference Friday, Carlock resident Desi Anderson was joined by state and national lawmakers to announce proposed legislation clamping down on student directory data that is not protected by current privacy laws.

A right-leaning online publication had postedthe birth dates and home addresses of hundreds of thousands of Illinois registered voters.

Privacy and cybersecurity experts tell Bloomington-Normal residents they need to worry more about containing their information.

Five plaintiffs claim State Farm gave personal health information to a data firm servicing the insurance industry in assessing risk.

More than 687,000 Illinois residents filed valid claims that their photo appeared on Google Photos between May 1, 2015, and April 25, 2022, in violation of state privacy laws.

The council will vote during its regular meeting whether to lease 27 cameras from Flock Safety, for close to $84,000. That's the same vender Bloomington chose.

Bloomington has joined a growing list of cities adding license-plate reading cameras to their policing efforts, despite opposition from groups saying they raise privacy issues.

A total of 102 newly built homes sold in Bloomington-Normal last year. That's $34 million in new property value created in the community to meet demand, according to figures from the Mid-Illinois Association of Realtors. And it's more than twice the amount of new home construction in 2020. Early signs are this year will be even better.

The Central Illinois Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday it has reservations about a proposed new traffic camera system that can record license plate numbers of vehicles.

Illinois will get over $7 million in Equifax's up to $700 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and others over a 2017 data breach that…