Here's my watch telling me to try harder.Fifteen years ago, then-contributor Peter Lipson wrote a short post on this blog ...

A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...

Anonymization is a practical solution for preserving user’s privacy in data publishing. Data owners such as hospitals, banks, social network (SN) service providers, and insurance companies anonymize ...

Search marketing built on deep user data is no longer sustainable. Here’s how to evolve before performance takes a hit.

Mobile apps and social media platforms now let companies gather much more fine-grained information about people at a lower ...

In testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Harvard Kennedy School’s Bruce Schneier sounded ...

You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You close that pesky ad that opens first and check the forecast. You like your weather app, which shows hourly weather forecasts ...

The DNA data of millions of people who used 23andMe's services won't be sold to a pharmaceutical company. A bankruptcy judge ...

Unlike cookies, fingerprints can’t be deleted. They aren’t stored locally. They’re inferred, passively, every time your ...

After years of collecting consumer DNA, genetic testing companies are monetizing the data. But who should profit — the ...

Industry-wide, there's growing interest in how match rates and representativeness affect the accuracy of marketing outcomes.

Recent reports highlight a troubling trend in data privacy, revealing that personal information can be bought for as little ...