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Erie County Legislator proposes new law after Wegmans admits to data collection

Erie County Legislator Lindsay Lorigo is proposing a law that would spread awareness about data collection in local stores.

New California tool can stop brokers from selling your personal online data. Here’s how

Californians can now visit one state website to request all data brokers delete their personal information and refrain from ...
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Panel to Evaluate the Quality of Compensation Data Collected from U.S. Employers by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission through the EEO-1 Form

This study will examine the key uses for the compensation data that were collected by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and review the methods used and the circumstances of the ...
CNN

Dept. of Labor launches investigation into data collection process at BLS

The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant ...
NBC News

Jobs data revisions are common. Here's how the process works.

President Donald Trump fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming that last week’s jobs report “was rigged” without providing any evidence. But former Labor Statistics ...
Geeky Gadgets

Easily Build an Excel Multi-Step Data Entry Form for Error-Free Data Entry

Have you ever been overwhelmed by messy spreadsheets or struggled to collect data in an organized way? Imagine a scenario where instead of juggling multiple tabs and rows, you could guide users ...
The New York Times

Cuts to Data Collection May Erode Reliability of Economic Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...
Cochrane

How accurate are different types of sample collection for diagnosing COVID-19 infection?

• When used with RT-PCR tests (a molecular test that detects genetic material in COVID-19 using a technique called reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction), self-collected gargle and deep ...
Reuters

US Labor Department reducing CPI collection sample amid hiring freeze

WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Labor Department's economic statistics arm said on Wednesday it was reducing the Consumer Price Index collection sample in areas across the country due to ...
The New York Times

U.S. Is Trimming Back Its Collection of Consumer Price Data

The cutbacks would have “minimal impact,” the government said, but economists warned of reduced confidence in inflation data produced by a struggling statistical system. By Ben Casselman The Bureau of ...
Harvard Business Review

The Risks of Collecting Employees’ Biometric Data

Companies can now accrue stunning amounts of intimate data about their employees’ bodies. Some might collect biometric data such as fingerprints and retina scans as part of efforts to improve security ...