Tag: Data

This March 26, 2018 file photo shows a computer with Facebook ad preferences pages in San Francisco. Proposition 24 on California's November ballot seeks to expand California's consumer privacy law by tripling penalties for companies that break laws regarding the collection and sale of children's private information. It would also create a state agency to enforce consumer privacy protections.

Virginia’s new data privacy law shows why consumers need federal legislation

Edward Longe · March 6, 2021 5:00 am

SolarWinds hack has lawmakers pushing for national breach notification law

Grant Gross · March 5, 2021 4:00 am

US lawmakers will push for new privacy regulations

Grant Gross · February 5, 2021 4:00 am

Apple to allow users to stop third party app tracking, a move creating conflict with Facebook

Nihal Krishan · January 28, 2021 7:02 pm

In this Friday, May 17, 2019 photo, Starr Roden, left, a registered nurse and immunization outreach coordinator with the Knox County Health Department, administers a vaccination to Jonathan Detweiler, 6, at the facility in Mount Vernon, Ohio. States are debating whether to make it more difficult for students to avoid vaccinations for religious or philosophical reasons amid the worst measles outbreak in decades, but children using such waivers are outnumbered in many states by those who give no excuse for lacking shots.Data reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a majority of unvaccinated or undervaccinated kindergartners in 10 of 27 states reporting were allowed to enroll in school without any exemption.

Vaccine sign-up info to be protected in Democratic coronavirus health privacy bill

Nihal Krishan · January 28, 2021 4:45 pm

Deborah Birx, coronavirus response coordinator, speaks.

‘Graphs that I never made’: Birx says ‘parallel data streams’ muddled Trump coronavirus response

Tyler Van Dyke · January 24, 2021 5:32 pm

National Weather Service considers throttling data connections amid bandwidth crunch

Tyler Van Dyke · December 10, 2020 5:40 pm

Victory in a state Senate race raises hopes. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

A nation divided? The data say maybe not so much

Christopher Karpowitz and Jeremy C. Pope · December 7, 2020 5:12 am

In this March 30, 2011 file photo, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee ranking Republican Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Magazine - Features

The swing senator

W. James Antle III · November 20, 2020 4:00 am

Magazine - Washington Briefing

The polls missed again on Election Day, especially in Maine

Jay Caruso · November 20, 2020 4:00 am

‘Processing anomalies’ in census data strain December deadline

Tyler Van Dyke · November 19, 2020 10:30 pm

App developers oblivious to US military buying access to location data

Mica Soellner · November 16, 2020 10:01 pm