The Metropolitan King County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to limit when and how it collects gender data from county residents. The legislation aims to strengthen privacy protections and to ...

Data collected by AI tools may initially reside with a company that you trust, but can easily be sold and given to a company that you don’t trust.

U.S. and state officials say the consolidation of the public health agency’s vast trove of information could expose patients and will delay analysis of long-term trends.

A key government statistical agency has cut back on its data collection, raising concerns among experts about widely used information about inflation, unemployment, and other facets of the economy.

The federal government is scaling back data collection used to calculate the inflation rate because of staff shortages. Economists warn that could make for less accurate cost-of-living measures.

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 ...

DOGE's murky push to amass data at federal agencies could hurt the U.S. government's ability to produce reliable census results, economic indicators and other statistics in the future, experts warn.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is cutting back its collection of data on consumer prices, raising questions about the reliability of federal economic statistics under President Trump.

Civil liberties advocates say the Trump administration's data collection and sharing endanger Americans' constitutional rights.

The secretive tech company behind Trump's data collection efforts The Trump administration reportedly wants a master database on every American — and they want Palantir to make it happen.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently opened its 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection portal and announced that covered employers have until June 24, 2025, to submit and ...

DOGE's push to cut some federal surveys conducted by the Census Bureau may be duplicating a White House agency's oversight work and weaken U.S. data infrastructure, experts warn.