Dating apps like Grindr, OkCupid, and Tinder might be violating privacy laws by spreading user information to…

The Department of Motor Vehicles has piles of data on pretty much everyone over sixteen years old in the U.S.…

Many people who distrust Facebook’s data collection practices laud the temporary nature of Snapchat, where posts…

In the U.K.—like in the U.S.—rape is a dramatically underreported crime, and, once reported, few cases go to trial.…

Ever get targeted by a Facebook ad so highly specific you wonder if there’s now an algorithm that reads your…

The dating/hook-up app Grindr is sharing the HIV status of its roughly 3.6 million daily users with two other…

New research says HPV infection rates have basically dropped like a rock among young women since they started…

The answer to the age-old question “What do women really want?” is finally here, at least according to Pornhub:…

The online shopping site Gilt employs a Principal Data Scientist, which is unsurprising and probably not that…

Recently, FiveThirtyEight compiled information from a 2009 study from the National Survey of Sexual Health and…

Despite all of its many and varied uses for acquiring and sharing knowledge or engaging in real, empathetic dialogue…

Can you judge a state by its PornHub keyword searches? Sure. Why not. And guess what? Right now you're probably…

According to the latest report from the CDC, U.S. abortions fell by five percent during the recession and its…

The internet, or at least a large swath of it, doesn't appear to be an entirely friendly space for moms, at least…

Indiana wins! Go Indiana! Oh wait, that's a chart of the different kinds of abortion restrictions existing in a…

It's been thirty years since the discovery of the AIDS virus, and while they've included immeasurable tragedy, there…

We can report that the just ended New York fashion week featured the least racially diverse cast of models since…

What makes a culture unique? What tastes, interests, and concepts define an ethnicity? These are big questions, and…

The latest salvo in OkCupid's ingenious campaign to woo us with data is the discovery that iPhone users have the…