The newly launched DROP portal could be a game-changer for Californians’ privacy, even though it’s not a replacement for a ...

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 ...

As you think about New Year's resolutions, consider one that protects every part of your life in 2026: removing your personal data from the internet. Not your social media posts. Not your email ...

There is big money tied to personal information, much of it bought and sold by data brokers. Now, a new California law is ...

Data brokers scrape together your most personal information—including where you’ve lived in the past and who belongs to your family, both immediate and extended—and then sell it openly on the web. As ...

Incogni is an automated data removal service from Surfshark that targets over 420 data brokers, using privacy laws like CCPA ...

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Imagine walking into a store and a stranger knows your name, income, and recent medical visits. Creepy? That’s how data broker systems work. They gather information from public data, online accounts, ...

The California Privacy Protection Agency has issued two new enforcement decisions that underscore its expanding focus on data ...

Americans’ personal data is now spread across more digital platforms than ever. From online shopping habits to fitness tracking logs, personal information ends up in hundreds of company databases.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Hassan, the top Democrat on the Joint Economic Committee, put five of the top firms—IQVIA Digital, Comscore, Telesign ...

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 ...