
Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details about You—and It Could Raise Your Rates
Insurers and data brokers are predicting your health costs based on data about race, marital status and other sensitive information
Insurers and data brokers are predicting your health costs based on data about race, marital status and other sensitive information
The practice is wasting billions of dollars a year, and patients and taxpayers are footing the bill
After being contacted by ProPublica, Facebook removed several anti-Semitic ad categories and promised to improve monitoring
Investigators tested internet security at four Trump properties. It’s not good
James Mattis’ unpublished testimony before a Senate panel recognizes a threat others in the administration reject or minimize
The second-year resident worries what will happen to his patients
The nation’s top science panel has just sketched a clearer way to set a fair price today for cutting tomorrow’s climate risks—and some of Trump’s advisers say the price should be zero ...
Climate change will bring more frequent and fierce rainstorms to cities like Houston
In 2009, Congress asked for recommendations on what to do about information that falls outside the privacy law known as HIPAA. Health officials released their report, but offered no suggestions...
Verizon is merging its cellphone tracking supercookie with AOL’s ad tracking network to match users’ online habits with their offline details
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