Your personal info is all over the internet. Data removal services can keep your phone number, email, and other details from ...

Even if you don't live in the Golden State, there are other ways to request that your information be deleted.

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 ...

While looking for a data removal service, you might come across two different types of removals: automated and custom. Both ...

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

CalPrivacy followed up on its threat from last year to focus on data brokers. This month it settled with Rickenbacher Data LLC for failure to ...

The new tool delivers privacy instructions to every registered data broker at once. Launched on Jan. 1, it is open to all California residents.

Identity theft myths debunked: your personal data is already exposed on data broker sites, and scammers don't need major breaches to target you.

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 ...

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

Hackers are pretty scary. Amoral, hooded figures with magical computer skills that can break into anything within minutes. At least that is what most of us think of when we hear the term "hacker." It ...