Data
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News
Colorado Bill Aims to Protect Consumer Brain Data
Consumers have grown accustomed to the prospect that their personal data, such as email addresses, social contacts, browsing history and…
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News
Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.
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Finance
Google to Delete Billions of Chrome Browser Records in Latest Settlement
The internet giant resolved a lawsuit that claimed it had deceived users by tracking their web activity in the Chrome…
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Finance
AT&T Resets Millions of Passcodes After Customer Records Are Leaked
Nearly eight million customers and 65.4 million former account holders were affected by the data breach, the company said.
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Finance
National Plan to Look Into Homeowners Insurers Hits a Hurdle
Roughly two weeks after state regulators said they were collecting details on insurers’ homeowners businesses, key states may opt out,…
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US
Khanna Explains Opposition to TikTok Bill While Senators Signal Openness
The California Democrat Ro Khanna pointed to the need for a federal data privacy law, and a Democrat and a…
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Finance
Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data
Romeo Chicco’s auto insurance rate doubled because of information about his speeding, braking and acceleration, according to his complaint.
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News
Biden Acts to Stop Sales of Sensitive Personal Data to China and Russia
In an attempt to limit blackmail and other harm, he will issue an executive order asking the Justice Department to…
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Books
The Authorities Don’t Need A.I. When Your Neighbors Will Narc on You
In “Means of Control” and “The Sentinel State,” modern governments wield high-tech snooping gear while relying on old methods of…
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Finance
Rents Are Falling. So Why Isn’t That Showing Up in Inflation Data?
Pandemic disruptions may have muddled the measurement of home prices in government data. That could complicate the Fed’s course on…