From the browser to the back end, the ‘boring’ choice is exciting again. We look at three trends converging to bring SQL back ...

Discover how insurance brokers earn through commissions and fees, and their role in helping clients select the best insurance policies.

Senator Maggie Hassan’s report exposes how data brokers’ practices—and failures—have fueled scams and identity theft, ...

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.

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 ...

Someone approaching the task of removing their information from the web is in for a surprise. Your data isn't on just one or two websites but scattered across various databases run by private data ...

A staggering 8.73 billion records belonging to Chinese citizens have been leaked online in one of the largest data exposures in history. The discovery, made by researchers at Cybernews, reveals a ...

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CHICAGO, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Online broker TradingBlock today announced that prominent data scientist Michael "Dr. Data" Rechenthin, PhD, has joined the company as Chief Innovation Officer ...

We’ve all Googled ourselves, and I’m confident in saying that, regardless of whatever actually pops up, everyone’s results are inevitably creepy. If you dig deep enough, chances are that someone can ...

The California Privacy Protection Agency has issued two new enforcement decisions that underscore its expanding focus on data broker accountability under the Delete ...

Tens of thousands of Californians have already signed up for the state's new tool to try and stop their data from being sold by brokers, officials say. Gov. Gavin Newsom is touting the rollout of the ...