Why are streamers and TV makers going to these lengths to collect data about you? In a word, money. Advertising revenue makes up a meaningful chunk of annual profits for these companies, and ad firms ...

They rattle off words like "mapping," "modules" and "longitudinal studies," vocabulary more common in the life of a data cruncher than of a Catholic sister. But some like Sr. Brenda Hernández, of the ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is telling states to begin turning over sensitive data on applicants to the food assistance program previously known as food stamps. The agency has recently expanded ...

NEW YORK — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motto is “Make America Healthy Again,” but government cuts could make it harder to know if that’s happening. More than a dozen data-gathering ...

Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit filed by Texas that accused the company behind Facebook of illegally collecting biometric data on users without their consent, ...

This year, Australia has experienced record-breaking floods, tropical cyclones, heat waves on land and in the ocean, drought, coral bleaching, coastal erosion and devastating algal blooms. Over the ...