Data brokers have long operated in the shadows of the internet, quietly amassing unprecedented amounts of personal information on billions of people across the globe, but few realize just how deep ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For years, the U.S. government has bought information on private citizens from commercial data brokers. Now, for the first time ever, American spymasters are admitting that this data is sensitive—but ...

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Protection Bureau (CFPB) – the government agency responsible for protecting consumers in financial matters – has withdrawn a rule proposed during the waning days of the Biden ...

The tragic events in Minnesota last month stand as a solemn reminder for all Americans to reflect and take action. The gunman who targeted lawmakers may have used people search websites to hunt down ...

Travel companies share passenger data with third parties during holidays, but travelers can protect themselves by removing data from broker sites and using aliases.

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 ...