Category: data

Data Point to a Recession in 2023

Commentary The saving grace of the U.S. economy for most of 2022 had been employment, which had printed positively each month. Employment even seems to have ameliorated the two consecutive quarters of declining GDP that occurred in the first half of the year that we identified as a recession.  Unfortunately, we don’t think 2023 will…


DOJ Admits It Has 30 GB of Data not Publicly Released by Jan. 6 Committee

The U.S. Department of Justice admitted in a recent court filing that it has about 30 gigabytes (GB) worth of data not publicly disclosed by the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol breach. The Department of Justice disclosed the existence of the 30 GB of previously unreleased data in an ongoing court…


Twitter Says No Evidence New User Data Leaks Were Obtained via System Bug

Twitter Inc. said on Wednesday that there was no evidence that data recently being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in the company’s systems. Twitter said the data of 5.4 million of the accounts had been compromised by a bug it discovered early last year, which it previously fixed and disclosed over the…


Chinese Medical Workers Reveal the Situation on the Ground as Official Death Toll Stays in Single Digits

As Chinese authorities continue to downplay the death toll from the country’s ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, health care workers and social media posts tell a dramatically different story. In data released on Jan. 9, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported 14,171 new confirmed cases across the country’s 31 provinces, with only three new deaths. The agency’s…


Microsoft to Roll Out ‘Data Boundary’ for EU Customers From Jan. 1

LONDON/STOCKHOLM—Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday its European Union cloud customers will be able to process and store parts of their data in the region from Jan. 1. The phased rollout of its “EU data boundary” will apply to all of its core cloud services—Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power BI platform. Big businesses have…


Experts Warn UK Not to Trust TikTok’s Pledge to Keep User Data From CCP

A TikTok executive recently told the UK Parliament that while users’ personal data collected by the app can be remotely accessed in China, the company would never provide the data to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). However, it appears the reassurance has done little to ease the concerns around the social media giant and its…


EU Court Rejects WhatsApp Challenge Against EU Data Protection Board

PARIS—The Court of Justice of the European Union has dismissed as inadmissible an action brought by WhatsApp against a decision of the European Data Protection Board, it said in a statement on Wednesday. Following complaints about Whatsapp’s use of personal data in Ireland and a European Data Protection Board (EDPB) ruling on the issue, the…


South Dakota Bans TikTok on Government Devices

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed on Nov. 29 an executive order banning access to the video platform TikTok on state employee devices, citing its ties to Beijing. The governor’s office said the China-owned social media giant, which harvested private data “on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party [CCP],” posed a growing national security threat…


LIVE 10:30 AM ET: Paradigm Shift in US Politics Signaled by Midterm Data; ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ Ready Fraud Claims

The United States is seeing a paradigm shift in its political landscape, as conventional voting blocks begin to shift. Polling data shows that women, Latin American, and black voters are drifting further from the Democratic Party, and are now aligning more strongly with the Republicans under Donald Trump. The impact on the midterm elections could…


LIVE: Paradigm Shift in US Politics Signaled by Midterm Data; ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ Ready Fraud Claims

The United States is seeing a paradigm shift in its political landscape, as conventional voting blocks begin to shift. Polling data shows that women, Latin American, and black voters are drifting further from the Democratic Party, and are now aligning more strongly with the Republicans under Donald Trump. The impact on the midterm elections could…