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

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

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 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.

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.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a nonprofit privacy rights group have called on several states to investigate why “hundreds” of data brokers haven’t registered with state consumer ...

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

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.

A new report on modernizing the Privacy Act recommends Congress take action to rein in how agencies buy personal information from private data brokers.