Recently, there have been several changes in legislation, including the DROP Act. The idea is to give people back ownership ...

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 ...

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, ...

The attorneys general are requesting that warrants be required for web and location tracking and to block agencies from ...

Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Californians can request that all registered data brokers scrub their personal information using the state's DROP tool. (State of ...

If the ads you see in December feel a little too accurate, you are not imagining it. The holiday shopping season is the busiest time of the year for retailers and for data brokers. These companies ...