A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.

Four data brokers make their opt-out pages more accessible after a US senator calls them out for indexing tricks that prevented people from asking to have their data deleted.

A wave of data brokers have registered with California’s data deletion platform as they prepare to erase consumers’ personal ...

A new minority report from Congress’s Joint Economic Committee says a small club of data broker firms has saddled U.S.

A congressional investigation estimates broker breaches have cost consumers $20 billion in identity theft. Major brokers now promise to make it easier to opt out of their databases.

When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents want to find out where people live, work, travel or go about their daily life, they often no longer need a warrant or a judge’s approval. In many ...

You may not know them, but they certainly know you: Inside the dangerous and shady business of data brokers - Even if you don't know data brokers, they almost certainly know you. With no nationwide U.

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 ...

Imagine walking into a store and a stranger knows your name, income, and recent medical visits. Creepy? That’s how data broker systems work. They gather information from public data, online accounts, ...

Hackers are pretty scary. Amoral, hooded figures with magical computer skills that can break into anything within minutes. At least that is what most of us think of when we hear the term "hacker." It ...