Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials are seeking to monitor four out of every five U.S. consumer credit card transactions this year — up to 42 billion transactions – through a controversial ...

"Terms and conditions" for companies everywhere might be translated into plain English as per the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will go into effect in May. (For ...

Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Dina Temple-Raston about National Intelligence Director James Clapper's statement that NSA surveillance is "fully debated and authorized by ...

Data mining is the automated process of sorting through huge data sets to identify trends and patterns and establish relationships. Organizations today are gathering ever-growing volumes of ...

NEW YORK -- A federally funded crime database run by seven states is looking increasingly to privacy advocates like a potent substitute for the data-mining program the Pentagon scrapped after public ...

Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, has asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to provide a detailed listing of all IT programs ...

Data mining is both an art and science. Roughly stated, the purpose is to extract useful information from data. Data mining has been used for many years and in a number of different ways, however it ...

Data mining tools collect and analyze data much faster than humans. Learn what data mining is, how it works, and how to use it effectively. Data mining is an important big data management strategy ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday voted to wipe out funding for a Pentagon data mining program that the White House says is a critical weapon needed for the war on terrorism. Sen. Ted Stevens ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. For nearly a week, we've seen a series of leaks that have brought to light secret surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency.