Pollsters and market researchers are using synthetic respondents to fill in for real people. Critics worry the practice could ...

A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry ...

"Productivity growth is everywhere except in the data," said San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly while ...

The United States has no national privacy law. What it has instead is a laissez-faire policy that allows businesses and governments to harvest all manner of data and use it in any way they choose.

Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE,... Your data is everywhere. The government is buying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Data brokers collect and sell people's personal data, which they harvest from many online sources, including social media. SB 362 ...