Privacy issues

The federal government asked for Social Security numbers, addresses and other personal information from food assistance recipients in Kansas. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly won't hand it over, and Republicans say that the state could lose federal funds as a result.

The state has been given a July 30 deadline to respond to the federal government's latest request.

State Attorney General Gentner Drummond says he wants to prevent the company from selling its customers' private DNA information.

In “Homo Deus” (Latin for “man, the god”), Professor Yuval Noah Harari tells us a new religion is coming out of California’s Silicon Valley. It is called…