From your shopping habits to your address, data brokers have many of your most personal details. We show you how to check what's out there—and regain your privacy.

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Learn how to protect your privacy by removing personal information from data broker websites like National Public Data.

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The U.S. Department of Justice has sued toy maker Apitor Technology for allegedly allowing a Chinese third party to collect children's geolocation data without their knowledge and parental consent. A ...

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The entertainment company was allegedly alerted beginning in June 2020 that it was violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Charna Flam is a writer ...

A federal jury ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for invading users' privacy by collecting data over an eight-year period on millions of people who had turned off a tracking feature in their Google ...

The Trump administration is laying out plans to stop collecting certain information from states about students with disabilities. The U.S. Department of Education wants to end data collection on ...

Disney will pay $10 million to settle claims by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it mislabeled videos for children on YouTube, which allowed the collection of kids' personal information without ...