“Only those who can afford to pay are able to ‘opt out’ of seeing most of the ads—although much of their data will still be gathered.” It remains to be seen if the federal or state governments in the ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is telling states to begin turning over sensitive data on applicants to the food assistance program previously known as food stamps. The agency has recently expanded ...

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 ...

Collecting data on embedded emissions in imports offers a broader and more accurate picture of a country’s carbon footprint, enables informed climate policies, and—with some carrots and sticks—can ...

The AI-READI research program is gathering health data from people with and without type 2 diabetes, to create a dataset that will be used by scientists to improve our understanding of type 2 diabetes ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Erica Groshen, former head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about employment data and what politicization of the agency could do to future numbers. The U.S. Bureau ...

Other big entertainment companies may also face legal exposure over the mislabeling of videos targeted at youngsters on the Google-owned platform. By Winston Cho Disney has agreed to pay $10 million ...

A California judge has temporarily blocked the federal government from collecting personal information about Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants in 21 states and Washington, ...

Washington DC - President Donald Trump's administration announced Saturday it was canceling an annual US food insecurity survey, claiming it had become "overly politicized." "The US Department of ...