Databases Stories for 2018

The Secret Service Wants To Test Facial Recognition Around the White House 55
Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief 61
Amazon's Consumer Business Has Turned Off Its Oracle Data Warehouse 134
MongoDB Switches Up Its Open-Source License 141
Google Releases a Searchable Database of US Political Ads 46
Baltimore Police Department Is Still Using Lotus Notes 138
Amazon Plans To Move Completely Off Oracle Software By Early 2020 138
HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week 414
UK Launches National Dashcam Database For Snitching On Bad Drivers 235
'Have I Been Pwned' Is Being Integrated Into Firefox, 1Password 111
GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository 707
ACLU Sues ICE For License Plate Reader Contracts, Records 84
Hacker Shuts Down Copenhagen's Public City Bikes System 72
Police Drop Charges Filed Against 19-Year-Old Archivist For Downloading FOIA Releases 154
Equifax's Data Breach By the Numbers: 146 Million Social Security Numbers, 99 Million Addresses, and More 69
Apple Open Sources FoundationDB 50
Uber's 2016 Breach Affected More Than 20 Million US Users 6
The Supreme Court Fight Over Microsoft's Foreign Servers Is Over 94
Shodan Search Exposes Thousands of Servers Hosting Passwords and Keys 41
Jewelry Site Leaks Personal Details, Plaintext Passwords of 1.3 Million Users 37
NBC Publishes 200,000 Tweets Tied To Russian Trolls 270
119,000 Passports, Photo IDs of FedEx Customers Found On Unsecured Amazon Server 34
Police In China Are Scanning Travelers With Facial Recognition Glasses 87
ICE Is About To Start Tracking License Plates Across the US 167

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