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

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 ...

When I connect my business account to a payment app, I’m authorizing the data broker to access my data, but what they’re actually doing goes far beyond what I agreed to. Many of them have built ...

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 ...

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, ...

Marketers and businesses collect a ton of data about you. Here’s how to fight back. The phrase "data brokers" might conjure up a bunch of shady companies located in countries with loose privacy laws, ...

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

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 ...

Our data is a precious commodity, not only to us but to the many potential customers of data brokers who collect and sell it without our knowledge. Once obtained the information can then be used to ...

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 ...