Fifteen years ago, in the wake of the subway bombings in London, the United Kingdom was awakened to the danger of domestic terrorism and scrambled to address it. By August 2005, within a month of the ...

Why is the rent so high? The secret is in the sauce. The software uses an algorithm, with inputs from a variety of market-specific data sets, to price apartment rents in order to remove the guesswork ...

The Federal Trade Commission is considering whether to write sweeping new regulations that could restrict how businesses collect and use consumer data, hinting at a possible crackdown on commercial ...

As politicians ask regulators to turn up the heat on data firm RealPage, the Department of Justice has opened an antitrust investigation into the use of its YieldStar software, ProPublica reported ...

Demographic bias gaps are closing in face recognition, but how training images are sourced is becoming the field’s biggest privacy fight.

Is my car hallucinating? Is the algorithm that runs the police surveillance system in my city paranoid? Marvin the android in Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy had a pain in all the ...