While organizations are collecting vast amounts of data to train their AI tools, AI agents still lack the deep contextual awareness required to drive meaningful impact.

Google has pushed back the deadline for Fitbit users to migrate their data — again. Fitbit users who have put off moving their data to a Google account now have until May 19, 2026, to do so. Previously,

The personal data that companies collect from consumers online has become a big business referred to as data brokerage. However, most consumers don't know what personal information about them is being collected, how it is being traded, or how they can ...

Nicole Janssen is the Co‐founder and Co‐CEO of AltaML, a technology scale-up that elevates human potential with applied AI. At a time when we are all too familiar with the concept of supply chain shortages, businesses face another type of shortage.

There are companies whose entire business model is built around collecting personal data, including criminal records, employment details, addresses and more. They use this data to offer background check services to other businesses and individuals.

In 2019, the Indiana legislature passed a bill that would offer eligible data centers significant sales tax exemptions. The legislation said facilities packed with state-of-the-art servers could avoid the state's 7% tax when purchasing equipment and power.

Anything you’ve ever posted online—a cringey tweet, an ancient blog post, an enthusiastic restaurant review, or a blurry Instagram selfie—has almost assuredly been gobbled up and used as part of the training materials for the current bombardment of ...

Computer code and text displayed on computer screens. Reporter Billions of personal information records may have been exposed in April after a hacking group gained access to records from the background check service National Public Data (NPD), prompting ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you’ve started noticing the term “data broker” in the ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a TV series with his wife and their dog. About 40% of ...

Nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious “pedophile island” in the years prior to his death left an invisible trail of data pointing back to their own homes and offices. Maps of these visitations generated by a ...

We look at how Slough became the second biggest data hub on the planet.