A person standing in front of a bunch of screens showing various data - Credit: Zain bin Awais/PCMag Composite;Jacobs Stock Photography Ltd/fotograzia/via Getty Images It shouldn't surprise you that ...

Data brokers have long operated in the shadows of the internet, quietly amassing unprecedented amounts of personal information on billions of people across the globe, but few realize just how deep ...

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, ...

Arjun Bhatnagar is Co-founder and CEO of Cloaked, a consumer-first privacy startup dedicated to bringing humanity back to the internet. Every day, as I work in data privacy, I'm reminded how easily ...

Data brokering has become a multi-billion dollar industry, with the personal data of millions across the world being accumulated and traded in the hope of driving corporate growth while promising ...

Your personal data is a highly valuable commodity. Companies often treat it like a resource to be mined and traded. In practice, this means that everything you do on the Internet, what you search, ...

When I opened my floral design business several years ago, I never imagined how much technology would shape the way I do business. Like many small business owners, I’ve learned that keeping up with ...