Big data

The House narrowly defeated an amendment that would have ended funding for mass collection of phone records and other data by the NSA.

The House of Representatives votes on an amendment to take away money from the NSA today. It's part of the $500 billion defense spending bill and it's got the tech industry up in arms.

Retail stores have moved beyond Internet cookies to physical tracking, what's the big deal?

The debut novel from Brooklyn-based author Gabriel Roth delves into the world of the data and the tech boom.

Should advertisers and other companies be able to collect and hold onto users' browsing data? And should users be able to tell web site operators to stop tracking them?

The severity of wildfires in the United States is likely to triple by the end of the century, according to a new study out of the University of Alberta.

Is ok to pay to get the jump on market-moving news? Thomson Reuters is expected to suspend the practice of selling so-called sneak peeks of certain economic data to select clients today.

Joselyn Martinez says her own Internet legwork was the key to catching her father's escaped murderer over 25 years later.

At a Big Data industry conference in London, many industry experts find Edward Snowden's information dump unsurprising.