ICE’s reach may get even wider due to a new partnership with a spyware company. But there have always been tools at the ...

After years of waiting, millions of Facebook users are finally starting to receive payments from the $725 million privacy ...

In 2004, Blockbuster ruled entertainment with 9,000 stores and 60,000 employees. Netflix was mailing red envelopes and running a streaming site that barely worked. Reed Hastings knew DVDs were dying, ...

RIVER FALLS — As the City of River Falls prepares to remove the Junction Falls and Powell Falls dams, university students are playing a part in that process. The group, named the Data Analysis and ...

Online banking has become second nature for most of us. But as more people manage their finances online, new tools have emerged that collect bank info through pop-ups. Some of these tools are helpful, ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. President Donald ...

Every day, we tap and swipe on our favorite apps without a second thought. But have we ever paused to consider what happens to our data in the process? From social media platforms to fitness trackers, ...

NPR's Adrian Ma speaks to Sam Levine, former director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, now at UC Berkeley, about the use online data to charge some customers more for products and services.

The tech company lost a massive privacy case involving the Flo app that has raised huge questions about how health apps are secretly being used. For more than 10 years Tyler has used his experience in ...

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming that last week’s jobs report “was rigged” without providing any evidence. But former Labor Statistics ...

Have you ever been overwhelmed by messy spreadsheets or struggled to collect data in an organized way? Imagine a scenario where instead of juggling multiple tabs and rows, you could guide users ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...