It’s no secret that your personal data is routinely bought and sold by dozens, possibly hundreds, of companies. What’s less known is who those companies are, and what exactly they do. Thanks to a new ...

Consumers have greater access to data, information, and tools to support the management of their health than ever before. While the sheer quantity of these resources has increased exponentially over ...

Online privacy is complex, encompassing debates over law enforcement’s data access, government regulation and what information companies can collect. This chapter examines Americans’ perspectives on ...

Stengel is an MSNBC analyst and the former Editor of TIME. Digital generated image of satellite connection around Earth on black background. Stengel is an MSNBC analyst and the former Editor of TIME.

A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry ...

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT, went from a non-profit research lab to a company that is unlawfully stealing millions of users' private information to train its tools, ...

Explore how society uses and interacts with data to understand and navigate the world. Humans have always used data to help them understand and navigate the world. In recent years, advances in ...

The words data and information are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same. Data refers to raw facts, figures, or measurements. These can be numbers, words, symbols, or observations ...

This story is adapted from Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information, by Sarah Lamdan. You might not be familiar with RELX, but it knows all about you. Reed Elsevier ...

The American Revolution had July 4. The allies had D-Day. And now U.S. patients, held down for decades by information hoarders, can rally around a new turning point, October 6, 2022 — the day they got ...

In the May 5, 2021, Creating Data Advantage memo, then Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks states, “Data is essential to preserving military advantage, supporting our people, and serving the ...