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Streamers and Devices Are Collecting Your Data, and There's Not Much You Can Do About It

Why are streamers and TV makers going to these lengths to collect data about you? In a word, money. Advertising revenue makes up a meaningful chunk of annual profits for these companies, and ad firms ...
The New York Times

Cuts to Data Collection May Erode Reliability of Economic Statistics

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 ...
Forbes

Cutting Costs With Ockham’s Razor: Web Data Gathering For The Prudent

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 ...
Anadolu Agency

US Labor Department watchdog opens probe into labor bureau for data collection: Report

Focus on challenges, related mitigating strategies for producer, consumer price indexes data, collecting, reporting, ...
Los Angeles Times

Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen U.S. government health-tracking programs

NEW YORK — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motto is “Make America Healthy Again,” but government cuts could make it harder to know if that’s happening. More than a dozen data-gathering ...
NPR

As USDA begins gathering data on food stamp recipients, it widens its ask of states

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is telling states to begin turning over sensitive data on applicants to the food assistance program previously known as food stamps. The agency has recently expanded ...
SiliconANGLE

Meta agrees to pay $1.4B to settle Texas illegal biometric data gathering lawsuit

Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit filed by Texas that accused the company behind Facebook of illegally collecting biometric data on users without their consent, ...