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 ...

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, ...

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 brokers aggressively collect your holiday shopping data to fuel scams and targeted ads. Learn how to delete your digital ...

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 ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – the government agency responsible for protecting consumers in financial matters – has withdrawn a rule proposed during the waning days of the Biden ...

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 ...

When I opened my floral design business several years ago, I never imagined how much technology would shape the way I do business. Like many small business owners, I’ve learned that keeping up with ...

So, your data was leaked by hackers. Well, you’re not the only one. We live in an era in which data breaches are a daily occurrence. And that’s both bad and good news. It’s bad for obvious reasons—no ...

Travel companies share passenger data with third parties during holidays, but travelers can protect themselves by removing ...