A fresh class action suit claims that Google tricks users into thinking their Drive files are safe from ever being wiped out.

As you think about New Year's resolutions, consider one that protects every part of your life in 2026: removing your personal data from the internet. Not your social media posts. Not your email ...

COMING UP. NOW BACK OVER TO YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. CALIFORNIA IS TAKING ANOTHER STEP TO STRENGTHEN ITS DIGITAL PRIVACY. STARTING TODAY, RESIDENTS CAN REQUEST TO MORE THAN 500 DIFFERENT DATA ...

Use a loyalty card at a drug store, browse the web, post on social media, get married or do anything else most people do, and chances are companies called data brokers know about it — along with your ...

Starting Jan. 1, Californians can request the removal of their personal information from online platforms. The new Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) launched ...

Californians can now put a stop to their personal data being sold around on an online trading floor, thanks to a new free tool. On January 1, the state launched its Delete Request and Opt-out Platform ...

California is giving residents a new tool that should make it easier for them to limit data brokers’ ability to store and sell their personal information. While state residents have had the right to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Starting on January 1, Californians can go to the state’s new Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP), to request that online data brokers delete all of their personal ...

We want this everywhere: The data brokerage industry quietly trades in some of the most intimate details of people's lives, often without their knowledge or meaningful consent. Now, a new tool could ...

California has quietly handed its residents a powerful new privacy weapon, a centralized system that lets people tell hundreds of data brokers to erase their personal details with a single request.