Redesigning social media to suit different needs of users could make their time online more focused, according to new research.

Environmental social science is the application of social science ... Now researchers show how having access to reliable data often determined a city’s response to the pandemic-induced ...

The Department of Government Efficiency will be allowed only limited access to Social Security data after a federal court handed a ruling that will block the agency from tapping beneficiaries ...

This latest ruling prevents DOGE staffers from accessing Social Security databases that contain PII; directs them to delete any non-anonymized data in their possession from those databases ...

A federal judge on Thursday imposed new restrictions on billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, limiting its access to Social Security systems that hold personal data on ...

which they consider a threat to the future of Social Security benefits. “What is it we’re doing that needs all of that information?” Hollander said, questioning whether most of the data could be ...

Garmatz United States District Courthouse in Baltimore, on Friday, March 14, 2025, before a hearing regarding the Department of Government Efficiency's access to Social Security data. (AP Photo ...

two of the biggest advertisers on U.S. social media, are sharply cutting their U.S. digital ad spending, industry data show, in a blow to tech companies such as Meta's Facebook (META.O), opens new ...

OpenAI plans to launch a social network, according to a media report on Tuesday. A move like this would give OpenAI way more user attention and fresh data for AI model training. Elon Musk ...

Using an approach called “differential privacy,” the company said it would first generate synthetic data and then poll users’ devices (provided they’ve opted-in to share device analytics ...

Nurse Leslie Warner will never forget being taken to her local RCMP detachment in Fernie, B.C., in 2022 and charged in a social security ... 2017 and then sold the data for about $1,000.