Even as lawmakers look for ways to curb gun violence, the federal government and various states haven’t sent send millions of mental health and drug abuse records to ...

Hot on the heels of the National Public Records data breach, which leaked more than 2 billion records, another background check firm has now had a leak. The company in question, MC2 Data, exposed the ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Verify Faces – the world’s first publicly available background-check database to enable the use of facial recognition – launched its consumer edition in the U.S. The service ...

A May 1 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of a 2018 news article with the headline "Obama Removed 500,000 Pedophiles From Background Check Database." The article's subhead ...

A gun seller shows a SIG Sauer handgun to a customer at a gun show hosted by Florida Gun Shows, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, in Miami. (Lynne Sladky/AP Photo) The Department of Veterans Affairs would not ...

Three major cities have filed a lawsuit against the Defense Department for its failure to report many criminal convictions in the military justice system to the FBI and its national gun ...

More than 1,000 California law enforcement agency workers in the past decade have been found to have misused sensitive databases that are supposed to be accessed only for legitimate investigative ...