Background Data-sharing mandates from funders and journals have increased in recent years, but little is known about how shared data are used. Existing research has focused on access frameworks, with ...

Online identity must shift from storing customer data to requesting verifiable proofs. zkTLS turns verification into a yes or no proof, not a document upload, which ties back to the goal of proof over ...

Investigative needs differ across legal contexts, requiring distinct approaches to mobile data collection in criminal and civil cases. Overcollection of smartphone data leads to increased risk, ...

A new study by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and SII Generative AI Research Lab (GAIR) shows that training large language models (LLMs) for complex, autonomous tasks does not require massive datasets.

The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...

The cutbacks would have “minimal impact,” the government said, but economists warned of reduced confidence in inflation data produced by a struggling statistical system. By Ben Casselman The Bureau of ...

Companies can now accrue stunning amounts of intimate data about their employees’ bodies. Some might collect biometric data such as fingerprints and retina scans as part of efforts to improve security ...

The world runs on data, and businesses increasingly rely on it. However, traditional data sourcing methods often present challenges related to diversity, transparency, privacy, and cost. This article ...

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April 16, 2025 - The advent of new software applications may pose challenges for collections in the course of discovery, in addition to the challenges faced at the identification and preservation ...