Starting on January 1, Californians can go to the state’s new Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP), to request that ...

The new DROP platform aims to make it easy to request the deletion of online personal data held by data brokers in California ...

California legislative analysts concluded that data brokers offer valuable services, but also threaten people’s rights and ...

Open your browser. Search your name. The results might shock you. Data broker sites are watching, cataloging, and selling. Your digital footprint feeds their machine. Birthdate, phone number, address, ...

Regulators aren't asking "do you have an opt-out link?" They're asking “was the language easy to understand?” and "what ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. This story is copublished with WIRED. United States senator Maggie Hassan is pressing major data brokers after an ...

Data removal services can track down your information on people finder sites and data brokers and request it to be removed.

Your personal data is a highly valuable commodity. Companies often treat it like a resource to be mined and traded. In practice, this means that everything you do on the Internet, what you search, ...

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Our data is for sale — everything from our Social Security numbers to our browsing histories. Data brokers sell our personal details to other companies for marketing, credit reporting, debt collection ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Hassan, the top Democrat on the Joint Economic Committee, put five of the top firms—IQVIA Digital, Comscore, Telesign ...