Your personal info is all over the internet. Data removal services can keep your phone number, email, and other details from ...

Data brokers scrape together your most personal information—including where you’ve lived in the past and who belongs to your family, both immediate and extended—and then sell it openly on the web. As ...

The newly launched DROP portal could be a game-changer for Californians’ privacy, even though it’s not a replacement for a ...

There is big money tied to personal information, much of it bought and sold by data brokers. Now, a new California law is ...

Data brokers who offered brokerage services in California in 2025 must register or re-register their status with the state’s data broker registry by Jan. 31, 2026.  In-scope companies that fail to do ...

CalPrivacy followed up on its threat from last year to focus on data brokers. This month it settled with Rickenbacher Data LLC for failure to ...

How Do Data Removal Services Actually Remove Your Data?

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 ...

Californians can now use a new tool to request the removal of their personal information from over 500 data brokers.

Identity theft myths debunked: your personal data is already exposed on data broker sites, and scammers don't need major breaches to target you.

Incogni is an automated data removal service from Surfshark that targets over 420 data brokers, using privacy laws like CCPA ...

The California Privacy Protection Agency has issued two new enforcement decisions that underscore its expanding focus on data ...