On January 1, a new law known as DROP (Delete Request and Opt-out Platform) took effect. DROP allows California residents to ...

What data helps investment managers spot opportunities in volatile markets? We explore how alternative and unstructured data, ...

Data centers are hot. Literally. In the U.S., data centers burn through more than 4% of total annual energy consumption, says ...

Californians can now visit one state website to request all data brokers delete their personal information and refrain from ...

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 ...

New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence. By Kevin Roose Reporting from San ...

Murray is a Forbes news reporter covering entertainment trends. The United States has various federal and state laws that cover different aspects of data privacy, like health data, financial ...

Firefox maker Mozilla deleted a promise to never sell its users’ personal data and is trying to assure worried users that its approach to privacy hasn’t fundamentally changed. Until recently, a ...

On the internet, the personal data users give away for free is transformed into a precious commodity. The puppy photos people upload train machines to be smarter. The questions they ask Google uncover ...

In the past decade, Apple has positioned itself as a privacy-first company. It has butted heads with law enforcement for encrypting people’s phones, messages, and FaceTime calls, and battled Facebook ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how to drive more value with data and analytics. As data becomes increasingly ubiquitous, companies are desperately ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...