California signaled that data minimization is no longer an abstract privacy principle but an operational requirement with real enforcement consequences. On May 8, California Attorney General Rob Bonta ...

The healthcare industry has had a love-hate relationship with patient data. There’s either too much or too little, in the wrong format or siloed so that extracting and sharing it with all the people ...

The Federal Trade Commission will have its eye on privacy and data security enforcement in 2023. In August, the agency announced that it is exploring ways to crack down on lax data security practices.

Covid-19 was a severe test for our public health system. It laid bare many challenges and the need to focus attention on data collection, sharing and analysis to empower data-driven decision-making.

Native American student enrollment has been on the decline for the past decade, dropping 40 percent between 2010 and 2021, a loss of tens of thousands of students. Of the 15.4 million undergraduate ...

When implementing disability-inclusive practices, governments should consider several key factors, as illustrated through a federal request for information (RFI), and in a new local data standard. The ...

This is part of a series of articles inspired by questions from our readers. So thank you to, among others, Tom F, Steve G, Kristof P, Vaageesh T and Matt X, who all asked for a piece on data ...

I recently finished William D. Cohan’s epic history of General Electric called Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon. It spans the company’s full 125-plus-year history with the bulk of ...

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 ...