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Monday, June 17, 2013  The Supreme Court says lawyers may not obtain personal information from state driver license records to recruit clients for lawsuits.

Thursday, June 13, 2013  The generation that's grown up posting their lives online wants something unexpected: privacy

Thursday, June 13, 2013  Long-running study on Internet use finds 86 percent of Americans are online and most believe Big Brother is watching

Thursday, June 13, 2013  Leaker Snowden's allegations about US hacking give China new edge in cyber war of words

Wednesday, May 01, 2013  The Department of Veterans Affairs is being sued over a missing laptop officials say contained personal information of thousands of veterans.

Thursday, April 25, 2013  Facebook says independent audit following FTC settlement found privacy practices sufficient

Friday, April 05, 2013  The William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center is offering free credit monitoring to the nearly 7,500 veterans whose information may have been breached after a laptop went missing in February.

Friday, March 29, 2013  Drones poised for peaceful, everyday use in U.S., but privacy backlash could hamper industry

Thursday, December 27, 2012  A picture that Mark Zuckerberg's sister posted on her personal Facebook profile was seen by a marketing director, who then posted the picture to Twitter and her more than 40,000 followers Wednesday.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012  Developers worried about new rules for phone apps that apply to children

Wednesday, December 05, 2012  The head of South Carolina's information technology division says lawmakers should consider hiring two people to oversee agencies' cyber security.

Thursday, November 29, 2012  The legislation, which the Senate Judiciary Committee was expected to consider Thursday, would update a 26-year-old law by requiring police to obtain a search warrant from a judge before accessing the content of all emails and other private information.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012  Experts say that the hacking of 3.6 million South Carolina tax returns is the largest cyber-attack against a state tax agency in the nation.

Thursday, September 13, 2012  High School students at one Columbia school got a reminder to be safe on social networking sites like Facebook.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012  A social media workshop for parents and teens will be conducted by the Lexington County Sheriff's Department Wednesay night.