The Federal Trade Commission will permanently bar data broker Kochava and its subsidiary Collective Data Solutions from ...

A new law could result in state agencies severing their contracts with data brokers who obtain Oregonians’ personally ...

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 ...

Everyone is sick of spam calls and creeper sites that show weirdos where you live—but can any service solve it?

‘Data brokers’ are selling your private information. This watchdog wants to fix that The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced proposed regulations on data brokers to protect Americans' ...

Everyone wants your Social Security number. Some requests are legit, like when you’re starting a new job, applying for a loan or verifying your identity. But countless others, from data brokers to ...

Since April, a hacker with a history of selling stolen data has claimed a data breach of billions of records — impacting at least 300 million people — from a U.S. data broker, which would make it one ...

Data brokers may be banned from selling your personal data without legitimate justification, under a new proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Back in the summer it was revealed ...

WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed a new rule requiring data brokers to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, part of a flurry of last-minute rulemaking at the ...