Legal efforts to tackle excessive personal information collection by social media giants could transcend international boundaries if nations moved away from a focus on assessing competition using the value of data,

TikTok users are freaking out over a mention of "immigration status" data collection, but lawyers explain the disclosure is related to state privacy laws.

Data Privacy Day exposes a harder truth: privacy erosion now happens legally, quietly, and at scale—long before accountability or restraint enter the conversation.

Guest Opinion. The objectification of Native people as relics of the past and as “Invisible Americans” helps explain why reporting on missing Native persons is less reliable and why there is an expected undercount due to data collection requirements.

The Transportation Security Administration is looking to revise its biometric data collection and storage practices, according to a notice posted last week in the Federal Register.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture released the last of its annual reports on food security on December 30, showing that 47.9 million people in 18.3 million households reported having difficulty acquiring food due to lack of resources at some point in 2024.

Data collection is the process of gathering and measuring information used for research. Collecting data is one of the most important steps in the research process, and is part of all disciplines including physical and social sciences, humanities, business ...