With dramatic cuts to departments and efforts to restrict access to certain research, the administration is reshaping a vast data-driven world in its autocratic image.

Noem was trying to defend Elon Musk’s meddling in the government.

Donald Trump admitted that Elon Musk’s agency has access to too much sensitive data.

Elon Musk is rooting around highly sensitive data, and he might not even have been properly vetted.

Congress is trying to correct a major self-own.

Senator Gary Peters called out Donald Trump’s pick for homeland security over the data.

Donald Trump apparently thinks he can just ignore two branches of government.

President Joe Biden is reportedly already looking for ways to reverse the law.

Google announced it would pull out of the EU’s anti-disinformation code of practice.

Joe Biden signed a law earlier this year banning the app.

Elon Musk is collecting personal data from people in swing states under the guise of helping them register to vote.

The amendment bans giving the State Department funds to cite the Gaza Health Ministry’s data.

The economist Emily Oster’s “Expecting Better” made parenting less daunting. Her new book, “The Family Firm,” does the opposite.

Amazon’s glitzy new indoor park is supported by government subsidies, but it will be private property.

As primary competitors toss around “internal numbers” to claim victory in the early contests, they’re setting a Trumpian precedent.

His data journalism blog, FiveThirtyEight, is a political website with no politics—or rather, no politics beyond a mute approval of the status quo. 

David Auerbach returns with a memoir about coding, literature, and the way technology is changing our lives.

The fine the EU slapped on the company earlier this week may have set a record, but it will have to do more to get Silicon Valley's attention.

Despite promises from Mark Zuckerberg, the company's embrace of facial recognition technology suggests that it has no intentions of changing.

Producers of guns and data say they aren't responsible for misuse. But it's precisely the dangers that make these industries profitable.