Retailers collect data on their customers, which isn't always accurate

Christo Wilson is a regular customer at Home Depot. You can reliably find him in the home improvement chain's aisles every ...
Yahoo

AI tools collect and store data about you from all your devices – here’s how to be aware of what you’re revealing

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AI tools gather information about you from many types of devices, including smartphones. Prostock-Studio/Getty Images Like it or ...
Forbes

Business Owners Increasingly Rely On Social Media To Gather Customer Data

Today, the issue of data collection of online users remains a controversial issue. Today, data collection of online users remains a controversial issue. However, for many businesses, it isn't an issue ...
PC World

When you solve captchas, your data could be collected and sold

Captchas are touted as anti-bot security measures, but they're allegedly doing far more nefarious stuff behind the curtain. You know about captcha tests, right? The ...
MacTech

Here’s how much personal data your favorite apps are collecting about you

Most of us don’t think twice before opening an app. There are around 1.8 million on the Apple App Store and roughly 3.9 million on the Google Play Store. The average smartphone user spends close to 4.
Fast Company

How your data is collected and what you can do about it

You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You close that pesky ad that opens first and check the forecast. You like your weather app, which shows hourly weather forecasts ...
STAT

Enough, already: the problem with clinical trial data collection

The clinical research ecosystem has never been more technologically capable — or more burdened by its own ambition. In December 2025, the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development and our team at ...