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Power Query in Excel is a powerful tool designed to streamline the process of importing, cleaning, and transforming external data. It enables you to prepare datasets for analysis efficiently, saving ...

Are you worried that giant corporations and government agencies are indiscriminately collecting your personal data and then using it inappropriately? You're not alone. In a report released today, ...

To keep my personal data safe, I use a mix of secure local drives, encrypted cloud storage like ProtonDrive, and password managers like Bitwarden. I avoid oversharing online, enable two-factor ...

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Users of ChatGPT in Europe can now use web forms or other means provided by OpenAI to request deletion of their personal data in order to stop the chatbot processing (and producing) information about ...

The question of where AI should execute—whether in vast data centers or on personal devices—is a nuanced debate in this era.

A lawsuit alleges OpenAI stole personal data from "millions of Americans" to train ChatGPT. The lawsuit alleges OpenAI crawled the web to amass huge amounts of data without people's permission. It ...

The Trump administration's unprecedented efforts to aggregate the personal data of Americans are facing a new legal challenge. A class action federal lawsuit filed Tuesday argues the Trump ...

The European Data Protection Board advised national regulators to allow personal data to be used for AI training, as long as the final product doesn’t reveal personal information. The European Data ...