There is a curious trend afoot these days. As profits among tech’s biggest players have risen, so too have the number of breaches and hacks. Their trajectories nearly mirror each other: up, and to the ...

The chief reportedly also sought an increased use in lower-level criminal charges, instead of more serious charges that would count toward public crime data.

Allegations of crime data manipulation in Washington D.C. police department surface as Republican-led committee investigates.

The Justice Department has notified D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department that it completed its investigation into whether members of the department manipulated crime data to make crime rates appear ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)-- The dating site OKCupid this week became the latest company to admit that it has manipulated customer data to see how users of its dating service would react to one another.

D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith has been accused of manipulating crime data to “maintain the appearance of low crime” in a new report released Sunday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government ...

A former CFPB director and president and CEO of the Florida Bankers Association says the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been using misleading data to justify its rulemaking on credit card ...

A savvy businessman like former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts knows how easily data can be manipulated to make a bad situation look good. And that goes for pass rates on his state’s high school ...

The age of Big Data has generated new tools and ideas on an enormous scale, with applications spreading from marketing to Wall Street, human resources, college admissions, and insurance. At the same ...