In these politically divisive times, there’s one thing we all agree on—we don’t want a giant data center in our backyard. Behold, the hyperscale data center! Massive structures, with thousands of ...

A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how. If you’re near Rochester, New York, the ...

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On Election Day, Peter Hubbard was one of two Democratic candidates who took a decisive—and surprising—victory in Georgia. Hubbard was elected to the Georgia Public Service Commission, the body that ...

Your inbox could contain real money—or a trap. I made two fake settlement claim sites in five minutes, and I'm here to tell you how to tell a legit settlement notice site from a data-stealing fake. I ...

Abstract: Input-discriminative local differential privacy (ID-LDP) protects user data with a different range of values, which improves the utility of the estimated data compared to traditional LDP.

Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business. A ...

A data breach of the Tea app recently exposed users' selfies, IDs, and private messages. The breach shows the risk of giving out your sensitive information to new apps. Cybersecurity experts say ...

Economists say unbiased data is essential for policymaking, and for democracy. President Trump said he ousted the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the numbers produced by her agency were ...