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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users was posted in a low-level hacking forum. It includes phone numbers, full names, locations, email addresses, and biographical information. Security ...

More than 100 million customers’ phone records were exposed, but the breach did not include contents of calls, texts or data such as Social Security numbers and passwords. By Jenny Gross and Danielle ...

On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals. The company also said that by accessing those accounts, ...