Best Data Removal Services Guide. Use a data removal service and data removal tool to remove your data from data broker sites ...

Data Brokers Have a File on You. Here's How to See What's Inside From your shopping habits to your address, data brokers have many of your most personal details. We show you how to check what's out ...

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 ...

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 ...

You know, it's pretty unsettling when you think about it. We spend our whole lives working hard and saving up for retirement. Then, one day, you find out that some company you've never heard of is ...

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 ...

It was welcome news to hear that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau started working on a rule to rein in data brokers in 2024, but that rule has been challenged in court. Af ...

Data brokers are making serious money by selling personal information. Your phone number, email, home address, and Social Security number could be packaged and sold to spammers, scammers, and identity ...

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 ...

IAPP Staff Writer Alex LaCasse reports from the Privacy. Security. Risk. conference in San Diego where CalPrivacy staff ...

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’ ...

Journalists in Europe found it was "easy" to spy on top European Union officials using commercially obtained location data ...