On January 1, a new law known as DROP (Delete Request and Opt-out Platform) took effect. DROP allows California residents to ...

Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional ...

Using confidentiality, integrity, and availability to classify data. To determine the level of protections applied to a system, base your classification on the most confidential data stored in the ...

The purpose of this standard is to provide the University community with a framework for securing information from risks including, but not limited to, unauthorized use, access, disclosure, ...

A trove of breached data, which has now been taken down, includes user logins for platforms including Apple, Google, and Meta. Among the exposed accounts are ones linked to dozens of governments. In ...

The National Institutes of Health will use information from federal health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid to create a "real-world data platform" to determine the cause of autism, the agency ...

Explore how society uses and interacts with data to understand and navigate the world. Humans have always used data to help them understand and navigate the world. In recent years, advances in ...

On the internet, the personal data users give away for free is transformed into a precious commodity. The puppy photos people upload train machines to be smarter. The questions they ask Google uncover ...

Billions of personal information records may have been exposed in April after a hacking group gained access to records from the background check service National Public Data (NPD), prompting warnings ...

Creating a base of loyal clients and customers who come back to purchase goods and services after an initial purchase is essential for small businesses to be successful. Remembering who clients are ...

Data breaches hit every kind of business, from hospitals to tech firms to major retailers. Now a leading government contractor has joined that list. Conduent, which manages critical public services ...

Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...