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Investigative needs differ across legal contexts, requiring distinct approaches to mobile data collection in criminal and civil cases. Overcollection of smartphone data leads to increased risk, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced in September that it would stop making polluting companies report their greenhouse gas emissions to it, eliminating a crucial tool the US uses to track ...

Often divided into primary and secondary research, market research helps businesses identify key factors influencing their market, including the competitive landscape, target audience characteristics, ...

The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant ...

The processes used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to collect data for the jobs report have been under scrutiny after last week's disappointing jobs report, and one of the agency's former ...

Economists say unbiased data is essential for policymaking, and for democracy. President Trump said he ousted the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the numbers produced by her agency were ...

There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities,” said Denice Ross at the Federation of American Scientists ...

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Online data has the potential to transform how researchers and companies produce election forecasts. Social media surveys, online panels, and even comments scraped from the internet can offer valuable ...