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 ...

Data removal services can track down your information on people finder sites and data brokers and request it to be removed.

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, ...

Your name, credit score, income and other personal information is being collected, traded, and sold. Data brokers get your information from a variety of ways like when you register for a new app, sign ...

New rules from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and settlements from the Federal Trade Commission would limit what information data brokers can sell and who they can sell it to. Reading time 3 ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), under acting director Russell Vought, canceled proposed new rules this week that would have protected Americans’ sensitive private data—including ...

Arjun Bhatnagar is Co-founder and CEO of Cloaked, a consumer-first privacy startup dedicated to bringing humanity back to the internet. Every day, as I work in data privacy, I'm reminded how easily ...

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 ...

Data brokering has become a multi-billion dollar industry, with the personal data of millions across the world being accumulated and traded in the hope of driving corporate growth while promising ...