One-time opt-out forms may not fully protect retirees from data broker exposure and elder fraud scams that exploit decades of ...

Clym reports that California's new DROP platform allows residents to delete data from all registered brokers with a single ...

Ask a Palantir engineer what they build and you might get a shrug, a heavily redacted answer, or a question back: “Which client are you talking about?” Even former staff, no longer bound by NDAs, have ...

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.

California has quietly handed its residents a powerful new privacy weapon, a centralized system that lets people tell hundreds of data brokers to erase their personal details with a single request.

If you’ve ever Googled yourself and found an address, phone number or family link you didn’t remember posting—welcome to the data broker ecosystem. It’s bigger than most people realize, and it doesn’t ...

Nobody likes the idea that their data might be for sale. However, most Americans' details, including their address, phone number, shopping habits, and even health information, is bought and sold by ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Breaches at data brokers have cost American consumers more than $20 billion, Congress’s Joint Economic Committee ...