Yale Insights

Sharing Your Data Comes at a Cost—and Not Just to You

A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Jidong Zhou models the interaction between individual privacy choices and firms’ ...
Governing

How Shared Data Is Changing Alabama’s Opioid Response

Like millions of Americans, many Alabamians have been affected by opioid use disorder. From 2006 to 2014, fatal drug overdoses (including, but not limited to, opioids) in Alabama grew 82%. By 2016, ...
NPR

The Trump administration admits even more ways DOGE accessed sensitive personal data

For much of the last year, staffers who were initially part of the Department of Government Efficiency effort improperly accessed and shared sensitive personal data on millions of Americans. The ...
Forbes

From Funding Organizations To Funding Outcomes: Why Shared Data Is Reshaping Philanthropy

Philanthropy isn’t short on generosity. What it lacks is visibility into whether that generosity is actually changing lives at scale. Writing bigger checks no longer feels sufficient, because giving ...
New York Post

IRS shared tax data on 47K people with immigration officials — seemingly violating legal protections: report

The IRS shared confidential information on nearly 50,000 taxpayers with DHS officials for use in carrying out the Trump administration’s massive deportation orders – seemingly violating key legal ...
Hosted on MSN

Your phone is sharing data without your knowledge - how to stop it ASAP

Your phone may be sharing data without your awareness. Certain data sharing is necessary, but some can affect your privacy. Review and block any unnecessary app permissions and data access. You ...
The New York Times

DOGE Employees Shared Social Security Data, Court Filing Shows

Employees detailed to the Social Security Administration shared sensitive data through a nonsecure server, the Justice Department disclosed. By Eileen Sullivan Reporting from Washington Employees ...