From your shopping habits to your address, data brokers have many of your most personal details. We show you how to check ...

You’ve been planning on fixing your brakes and Googling auto repair shops. At the same time, you have been longing to buy butterscotch fudge ripple ice cream and searching for it on your Instacart app ...

Hackers are pretty scary. Amoral, hooded figures with magical computer skills that can break into anything within minutes. At least that is what most of us think of when we hear the term "hacker." It ...

Yael Grauer wrote the book on how to opt out of data broker listings, but thinks it's time for Congress to (finally) step in. 'We need a policy solution,' she says at ShmooCon. Rob writes from ...

Your personal data is a highly valuable commodity. Companies often treat it like a resource to be mined and traded. In practice, this means that everything you do on the Internet, what you search, ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – the government agency responsible for protecting consumers in financial matters – has withdrawn a rule proposed during the waning days of the Biden ...

Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data. The Consumer Financial ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has withdrawn a proposed rule aimed at protecting consumers from having their personal and financial information sold by data brokers. The CFPB withdrew the ...

Data brokers are required by California law to provide ways for consumers to request their data be deleted. But good luck finding them. More than 30 of the companies, which collect and sell consumers’ ...

It shouldn't surprise you that your personal information is floating around online. From old photos to contact details to banking records, a lot of your very personal data is easily accessible. And ...