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Data brokers make a living by selling your personal information for profit. Your phone number, email, home address, and Social Security number could be packaged and sold to spammers, scammers, and ...

Any entity that is a “business,” as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and that knowingly collects and sells to third parties the personal ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai lead a panel at the Google Midlothian Data Center on November 14, 2025 in Midlothian, Texas. Getty Images Developers hoping to get 184 ...

a computer with the ChatGPT prompt displayed on screen with a person sitting by it - aileenchik/Shutterstock OpenAI has a Privacy Portal that lets you freely remove ...

AI can get you to Inbox Zero very easily: it’ll just delete all of your messages. Over the weekend, Summer Yue, the director of safety and alignment at Meta’s superintelligence lab, posted on Twitter ...

As part of Safer Internet Day, Google unveiled updates to its “Results about you” and non-consensual explicit image removal tools. The “Results about you” tool already allows users to remove Search ...

Someone approaching the task of removing their information from the web is in for a surprise. Your data isn't on just one or two websites but scattered across various databases run by private data ...

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That embarrassing photo or risque video you deleted last year? It’s still on your phone. And if you sold your old iPhone on eBay, the new owner can get it back in about 60 seconds. Here’s what delete ...

SAN DIEGO — California residents now have a new way to protect their personal information from data brokers—companies that collect and sell consumer data—through a state platform. The platform, called ...