Nicol Turner Lee, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, says the Golden State's Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform ...

Senator Maggie Hassan’s report exposes how data brokers’ practices—and failures—have fueled scams and identity theft, ...

A wave of data brokers have registered with California’s data deletion platform as they prepare to erase consumers’ personal ...

Breaches at data brokers have cost American consumers more than $20 billion, Congress's Joint Economic Committee revealed Friday as part of an investigation triggered by CalMatters and The Markup. The ...

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 ...

Four data brokers make their opt-out pages more accessible after a US senator calls them out for indexing tricks that prevented people from asking to have their data deleted.

The responsible gathering of data on consumers is intrinsic to the verification tools that keep everyone safe from identity theft and other forms of fraud. Blanket attacks on "data brokers" will harm ...

Every time you sign up for a loyalty program, download an app, browse a website, or even register to vote, you may accidentally be contributing to a largely invisible industry that trades in your ...

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, ...

A new report on modernizing the Privacy Act recommends Congress take action to rein in how agencies buy personal information from private 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 ...