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.

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

A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.

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A new minority report from Congress’s Joint Economic Committee says a small club of data broker firms has saddled U.S. consumers with more than $20 billion in losses, and it all traces back to a ...

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

California has quietly handed its residents a powerful new privacy weapon, a centralized system that lets people tell hundreds of data brokers to erase their personal details with a single request.

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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 ...

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, ...