Healthy data collection is the process of collecting, organizing and utilizing data in a legal, honest and safe manner. It’s an approach to data that is in everyone’s interest. When a business has ...

Meta has been facing a growing legal problem. The company makes most of its money from personalized ads, which of course rely on sucking up as much personal data as possible to determine which ads to ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. An increasing number of businesses rely on publicly available web data. Data sets from ...

China has proposed new regulations for personal information governance, emphasising user consent, responsible use of private ...

The business value of real-time data isn't negotiable anymore. But how that data is obtained is another matter. Is there such a thing as ethical web scraping? If so, what are the valid use cases? A ...

Statisticians and demographers are sounding the alarm about threats to official data gathering in the U.S. Here’s why that matters and who would be affected.

With all the talk about big data lately, you might feel your company needs to collect stats about everything — constantly. If you do, though, you could end up with data overload. The consequences of ...

They rattle off words like "mapping," "modules" and "longitudinal studies," vocabulary more common in the life of a data cruncher than of a Catholic sister. But some like Sr. Brenda Hernández, of the ...