Scammers reset their target lists every January using refreshed data broker profiles. Learn why this month is crucial for ...

Californians can now visit one state website to request all data brokers delete their personal information and refrain from ...

The platform gives residents the ability to request deletion of their personal information from 500+ registered data brokers ...

California legislative analysts concluded that data brokers offer valuable services, but also threaten people’s rights and ...

Your personal data is probably being sold right now. Scam calls, junk emails, and weird login alerts aren't random. They're warning signs that your information is being circulated through data brokers ...

(WJAR) — Have you ever Googled your own name, only to find a shocking amount of personal information? Some of these people search sites like Whitepages, Spokeo, and BeenVerified have a lot of ...

Online privacy is complex, encompassing debates over law enforcement’s data access, government regulation and what information companies can collect. This chapter examines Americans’ perspectives on ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

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 ...

Erasing your digital footprint could get a lot easier by 2026. California lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill known as the Delete Act that would allow consumers, with a single request, to have every ...

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 ...