Companies can now accrue stunning amounts of intimate data about their employees’ bodies. Some might collect biometric data such as fingerprints and retina scans as part of efforts to improve security ...

Rebecca Perrault is the VP and Global Leader of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) at Magnit where she launched Magnit's DE&I offering. Gaining insight into workers' diverse backgrounds can help ...

The number of apps that collect detailed personal data might surprise you. That includes some of the top apps on the App Store and Google Play Store. What I love doing most as the CyberGuy is making a ...

The Trump administration has fired nearly everyone who worked at the federal statistics agency that would collect the data the government is seeking. By Sarah Mervosh President Trump’s new requirement ...

Data collection is the process of gathering and measuring information used for research. Collecting data is one of the most important steps in the research process, and is part of all disciplines ...

Cars collect a lot of sensitive data about drivers. "Unfortunately, there aren't really clear rules about what they can do with that data," said Justin Brookman, the director of technology policy at ...

A former government statistician is sounding alarms about our ditching of the five-yearly census, saying we risk losing a rich seam of information. It's getting harder and harder to nail down the ...

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. It's easy to ...

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Meta will soon begin “collecting anonymized data” from users of its Quest headsets, a move that could see the company aggregating information about hand, body, and eye tracking; camera information; ...

More than a billion persons globally, about 15 percent of the world’s population, are estimated to have a disability. Most of them live in low- and middle-income countries. This number is expected to ...