“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Gary Kibel, a partner in the technology, ...

On May 1, the White House released a 90 day review studying the effects of big data and privacy, led by Obama's Counsel, John Podesta. The review, which can be found here, and a summary of it, here, ...

A White House report released last week extolls the benefits of Big Data analytics, including its potential to “make possible unexpected discoveries, innovations, and advancements in our quality of ...

Data analytics are being used to implement a subtle form of discrimination, while anonymous data sets can be mined to reveal health data and other private information, a Microsoft researcher warned ...

Colorado is leading the way on regulation around insurers’ use of data with its first rules requiring life carriers to ensure the use of third-party data in life insurance underwriting does not ...

FILE - In this April 17, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the White House briefing room in Washington. A White House review of how the government and private sector use large sets of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — While local, national and social media sources may make it seem incidents of potential racism are on the rise, complaint records maintained by the state show that’s not ...

In an effort to help prevent wage discrimination, the federal government may soon require employers to report how much they are paying their employees by race, ethnicity and gender. Blair Robinson, a ...

In 1977, the U.S. agency of Housing and Urban Development audited the real estate industry and discovered that African Americans were shown fewer properties (or told they were unavailable) and treated ...