If you have ever tried to opt out of a data broker site, you know the drill. You search. You scroll. You click through layers of legal jargon. Then you wonder if they even want you to find the exit ...

Four data brokers have made their opt-out pages easier for internet users to find after a US senator’s investigation found the pages had been hidden from search engines. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) made ...

Your name, home address, phone number and even past purchases may be circulating online without your knowledge. That’s because data brokers collect and sell personal information from public records, ...

Your phone rings with an unknown number. A scam email arrives using your full name and home city. A phishing text mentions your bank by name. None of this is coincidence. More than 400 data broker ...

On August 11, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy) announced that its board issued a decision requiring a data broker to pay $116,490 and change its ...

California’s privacy regulator just sent a clear message to the data broker ecosystem: compliance failures will be viewed across both the California Consumer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. delete button - Credit: Lemon_tm via Getty Images Four data brokers have made their opt-out pages easier for internet users to ...

A U.S. Senate investigation found major data brokers used no index code to hide opt-out pages from Google, making it harder for people to stop the sale of their personal data. If you have ever tried ...

Data brokers collect and sell your personal information, which may be circulating online without your knowledge. You can request that data brokers remove your information, but the process can be ...