Evergreen explainers on data brokers, privacy law, and protecting your information.
Ancestry, MyHeritage, and 23andMe are not classic data brokers, but they hold an unusually sensitive category of data. That difference matters for your rights.
Mugshot sites republish arrest records, including dismissed and expunged ones. Removal is possible, but the process differs sharply from a standard opt-out.
The spam call surge after your number turns up somewhere new is no coincidence. Here is how a phone number travels from a data broker to a robocaller.
Global Privacy Control is a free browser setting that tells every site to stop selling your data, and several state laws now require companies to honor it.
New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law gave address removal real enforcement teeth, and other states have followed. Here is who qualifies and what the protection covers.
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.