Privacy Guides

Baby registries, hospital paperwork, and birth announcements all start a data trail. Here is how to keep a newborn’s information out of broker databases.

Identity theft and data broker exposure are related but different threats. Telling them apart keeps you from buying the wrong protection for the wrong problem.

A step-by-step guide to requesting removal of your home address from Google Search using Google’s free tools, and why removing the source listing matters most.

Data brokers collect your personal information, package it into profiles, and sell it to advertisers and employers, with no direct relationship to you at all.

Whether you can sue a data broker depends on what they published, how they got it, and what laws apply in your state.

A VPN protects your internet traffic, but it does almost nothing to stop data brokers from collecting and selling your personal information.

People-search sites, credit bureaus, and consumer reporting agencies follow very different legal rules. Knowing which is which tells you what rights you have.

A practical guide to the growing number of US states with data broker registries and consumer privacy opt-out rights outside of California.

California residents can force data brokers to delete personal information, and the DROP portal sends one request to every registered broker at once.

Opting out once isn’t enough, here’s why your listing can reappear, and a realistic schedule for checking again.

Yes, generally, here’s what US law actually says about data brokers, and what rights you do have.