The accusations include bribery, computer piracy, improper access by foreign entities, privacy breaches, inadequate customer service, questionable business practices, unjust enrichment, stock option backdating, and foreign ownership. . .

According to federal prosecutors, the clerk was the recipient of a kickback, valued at $60,000, in exchange for a $1.28 million contract to digitize and place county land records on a database.

Provided access to "secure" database

Nineteen year old Justin A. Perras from New Bedford, Massachusetts is accused of conning the Denton County Sheriff's Department in Texas and police in Florida into providing passwords . . .

Confusion and misinterpretation surround a recent Texas Appellate Court ruling related to the Texas Public Information laws and the Federal medical privacy regulations in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. . .

Data brokers, foreign data miners, terrorists, stalkers, identity thieves, some journalists and some county officials say they have a right to to access deed records from anywhere in the world . . .

Law enforcement, legislators and citizens disagree

Police officers say Mecklenburg County's online real estate records may put them in danger, and the department wants the county to make their personal information harder to find. . . .

Information technology (IT) people: wrongly classified as exempt

Thousands of government IT workers may be due overtime for lost wages in the past seven years.

More than 2 million documents - thousands containing individuals' Social Security numbers - had been available for online perusal.

Investigators believe hackers stole sensitive U.S. information and passwords and implanted backdoors in unclassified government computers to allow them to return at will, said U.S. officials . . .

The county recorder for Clark County, Nevada was charged with 19 felony counts for allegedly selling 32 years worth of real estate documents.