Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the ...
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 ...
Organizations disclose attack details, though information may be limited, following a breach, but what if they did the same ...
In the United States, political campaigns use data on more than 200 million voting-age Americans to inform their strategies and tactics. The two major U.S. parties compete to use the most accurate ...
The personal data that companies collect from consumers online has become a big business referred to as data brokerage. However, most consumers don't know what personal information about them is being ...
More than 40 million Americans' medical records have been stolen or exposed so far this year because of security vulnerabilities in electronic health care systems, a USA TODAY analysis of Health and ...
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 ...
Computer code and text displayed on computer screens. Reporter Billions of personal information records may have been exposed in April after a hacking group gained access to records from the ...
The surge in data company acquisitions continued Monday with Snowflake’s purchase of Crunchy Data. Cloud data platform Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Crunchy Data, a Postgres database ...
A customer data platform (CDP) collects data from online and off-line sources and standardizes it to create comprehensive customer profiles. Then, these profiles are used to build campaigns and ...
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 ...