Jobs revisions that led President Trump to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics are due to falling survey response rates.

It’s not just economic journalists glued to their computers when federal economic data is released. On the morning of the ...

Proponents of synthetic data see it as the future, saying it will help government have more access to valuable data while at the same time protecting individual privacy.

The Department of Justice is escalating its demands for sensitive data from voting officials, suing two Democratic-controlled ...

Days after President Donald Trump took office again in January, thousands of government pages with critical data were taken down as agencies rushed to comply with executive orders targeting diversity, ...

Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts. By Emily Badger and Sheera Frenkel The federal government knows your mother’s maiden ...

Speakers during a recent webinar said federal access is “not unlimited,” and that certain safeguards are in place “for good ...

Senate Democrats are seeking to revive a database that had tracked billion-dollar climate and weather disasters for decades, ...

Frank Bisignano said the agency’s data protection measures “did not diverge” from standard practice, challenging the DOGE-related concerns raised by SSA’s ex-CDO.

The federal government asked for Social Security numbers, addresses and other personal information from food assistance ...