That’s beginning to change. As of Jan. 1, Oregonians can use a universal opt-out tool to automatically signal that they don’t want their personal data sold, shared or used for targeted advertising.

In 2021, a company specializing in collecting and selling location data called Near bragged that it was “The World’s Largest Dataset of People’s Behavior in the Real-World,” with data representing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each data breach includes sensitive personal information, such as credit and debit card numbers, home addresses and account ...

Data breaches happen every day—and they're rarely random. Most stem from deliberate, targeted cyberattacks or the exploitation of overlooked security flaws, allowing criminals to infiltrate systems ...

The dark web is a scary place, and the last thing you want is to have any personal information about you out there for scammers to access. Recently, The United States Department of Justice revealed ...

How much of your information did you hand over today? Chances are, far more than you realize. That is because there is a multi-billion-dollar data brokerage industry that runs entirely on your data, ...

Twitter said that after investigating reports that data on upwards of 400 million users was being sold online, it found “no evidence” that was obtained by exploiting vulnerabilities in its systems.

Every year, massive data breaches harm the public. The targets are email service providers, retailers and government agencies that store information about people. Each breach includes sensitive ...