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Wisconsin uses a computer model to predict how likely middle school students are to graduate from high school on time.

For many students, that’s not a problem. They generally trust their institutions and see the online elements of higher education as convenient. Putting up with data collection seems like a necessary ...

For most of the past four years, Chantel Jones lived in a homeless shelter on Los Angeles’s skid row, hating the danger, noise, and confinement: “You feel like you’re in jail, but you’re not in jail,” ...

Blacklight is a real-time website privacy inspector. The tool emulates how a user might be surveilled while browsing the web. Users type a URL into Blacklight, and it visits the requested website, ...

State regulators and consumer advocacy groups have scrutinized Allstate Corporation’s use of big data and personalized pricing in the way it calculates how much the company charges its private auto ...

Are Your Country’s Cellphone Plans a Rip-off? If you live in the U.S. or Canada, the answer is probably yes By Sam Morris September 3, 2020 08:00 ET Updated September 3, 2020 11:47 ET Want a great ...

A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information—including details about their medical conditions, prescriptions, and doctor’s ...

News Why It’s So Hard to Regulate Algorithms Governments increasingly use algorithms to do everything from assign benefits to dole out punishment—but attempts to regulate them have been unsuccessful ...

News The Future of Border Patrol: AI Is Always Watching Human rights advocates warn of algorithmic bias, legal violations, and other dire consequences of relying on AI to monitor the border By Monique ...

New rules requiring donated livers to be offered for transplant hundreds of miles away have benefited patients in New York, California, and more than a dozen other states at the expense of patients in ...