The following script is from "The Data Brokers" which aired on March 9, 2014. Steve Kroft is the correspondent. Graham Messick and Maria Gavrilovic, producers. Over the past six months or so, a huge ...

At its core, the rise of “fake news” is first and foremost a sign that we have failed as a society to teach our citizens how to think critically about data and information. Take that email from a ...

As rules on how data can be processed, leaders face a need between protecting sensitive information and unleashing the full ...

Online privacy is complex, encompassing debates over law enforcement’s data access, government regulation and what information companies can collect. This chapter examines Americans’ perspectives on ...

Explore how society uses and interacts with data to understand and navigate the world. Humans have always used data to help them understand and navigate the world. In recent years, advances in ...

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT, went from a non-profit research lab to a company that is unlawfully stealing millions of users' private information to train its tools, ...

Karandeep Singh ([email protected]) is an assistant professor of learning health sciences, internal medicine, and information at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Sean R. Meyer is a PhD ...

The benefits of data standardization within the social sector—and indeed just about any industry—are multiple, important, and undeniable. Access to the same type of data over time lends the ability to ...

Richard Stengel is the former Editor of TIME, an MSNBC analyst, and the author of Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation. We are living in the greatest information ...

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 ...