Many popular apps collect far more personal data than they need to work. These 20 apps quietly gather your photos, location, ...

Coding, transcription, and other productivity tools proved the most invasive, though several other categories are worth watching as well.

Data-driven AI systems increasingly influence our choices, raising concerns about autonomy, fairness, and accountability. Achieving algorithmic autonomy requires new infrastructures, motivation ...

A heatmap is a graphical representation of data using colors that represent different values. It's often used to demonstrate user behavior on a particular web page.

Hurricane Hunters are flying into a winter storm expected to impact a large portion of the United States over the weekend.

A group of about 30 protesters gathered in front of Winchester Hall on Tuesday to oppose the formal enactment of a new data center zone by the Frederick County Council. The 2,615-acre Critical Digital ...

A federal judge in California this week struck down the Justice Department's demand for the state to hand over sensitive voter roll data, ruling that it would trample on residents' privacy rights and ...

In these politically divisive times, there’s one thing we all agree on—we don’t want a giant data center in our backyard. Behold, the hyperscale data center! Massive structures, with thousands of ...

China has issued draft regulations for the governance of personal information collection from the internet and its use by applicants, as part of its efforts to safeguard users’ rights and promote ...

A month before arriving at its destination, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has already begun to collect science data from each of its 10 instruments, NASA announced this ...