Californians can now use a new tool to request the removal of their personal information from over 500 data brokers.

The new DROP platform aims to make it easy to request the deletion of online personal data held by data brokers in California.

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

You probably don’t want your genetic data — which can reveal health information and at-risk medical conditions — out there for just anyone to see, but that is the fear for many folks right now as ...

A new California law lets residents demand deletion of their personal data from hundreds of data brokers with a single ...

If you use the internet, you've been in a data breach. Nearly every American is in multiple data breaches per year. There were over 3,000 major beaches in 2024 (registration required), with over 1.3 ...

THE GENETIC TESTING COMPANY 23 AND ME. IT HAS ARGUABLY FAILED TO BOUNCE BACK FROM A CYBERATTACK THAT SAW ITS CUSTOMERS PERSONAL INFORMATION AND GENETIC DATA COMPROMISED. THE COMPANY COLLECTED DATA ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about privacy including AI, privtech, data justice and law. 23andMe’s bankruptcy announcement on March 23rd triggered ...

The smartwatches and fitness trackers that we strap to our wrists are intended to log our activity in minute detail—but there might also be times when you’d rather records weren’t collected. Whether ...

None of us signed up for our personal info to be bought and sold online. Between data brokers, people-search sites and all the other places our details end up, it happens constantly and usually ...