Californians can now put a stop to their personal data being sold around on an online trading floor, thanks to a new free tool. On January 1, the state launched its Delete Request and Opt-out Platform ...

State seeks to give residents greater control over their personal data and have fewer messages forced upon them Californians can now use a government website to request that certain companies stop ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Starting on January 1, Californians can go to the state’s new Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP), to request that online data brokers delete all of their personal ...

2026 has barely begun, but already X is having issues and watching users leave the platform. Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, is behind the exodus this time after creating nonconsensual sexual images of ...

Use a loyalty card at a drug store, browse the web, post on social media, get married or do anything else most people do, and chances are companies called data brokers know about it — along with your ...

Early one morning in April, John Weiser checked his email, worried that a colleague at the Division of HIV Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was on the list for another round of ...

After genetic testing firm 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, New York Attorney General Letitia James is joining a growing number of officials calling for customers to delete their genetic data from the ...

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 ...

Data Removal for Family Members You can scrub every trace of your personal information from every data broker and still wind up right back on those lists because of your connections to other family ...

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