Privacy issues

Gov. Laura Kelly originally refused to hand over the data, leading the federal government to threaten withholding SNAP funds. The governor said she received additional privacy guarantees for how the data will be used.

Denver Health told Medicaid patients that “limited” personal information could be shared with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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…