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Scammers target older adults with fake retirement investment offers using personal information purchased from data brokers to ...

Every click, purchase, and "like" you make online is harvested, packaged, and sold for profit, making personal data a valuable commodity for data brokers.

Data brokers make money by collecting and selling your personal details. They find your information from social media, public records, apps, loyalty cards, and online searches.

While individuals need to focus on sharing less in general, entities looking to take a stand against data brokers can consider the following: ...

FTC settles with two data brokers over unlawful sale of sensitive location data without user consent; firms must delete data, reform practices.

Data brokers hoover up public data, process it into data profiles, and sell…you! You can opt out manually, but enlisting a personal data removal service is much easier.

In today's digital landscape, data brokers are like modern-day gold miners, sifting through the intimate details of our lives—our addresses, financial records, Social Security numbers—and ...

Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.

After reporters found dozens of firms hiding privacy tools from search results, US senator Maggie Hassan insists the ...