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

The heart of the privacy bill that the Massachusetts legislature is now considering is a simple but firm rule that companies ...

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

Data Privacy Day offers a natural checkpoint to take stock of a fast‑moving legal landscape. As of January 1, 2026, several significant U.S. state privacy laws and ...

Data privacy regulations aren’t known for being light reading. That doesn’t make it easy for businesses to become compliant. When one law refers to data subjects, another to residents, another to ...

When Connecticut Attorney General William Tong described granting the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to Treasury Department records as potentially the largest data breach in ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. You know something is tough to follow when they trot out a mnemonic device. At a press conference last week and in a ...

In a world where privacy regulations are tightening and third-party cookies are increasingly unreliable, first-party data has emerged as a cornerstone of modern marketing strategy. Yet, despite its ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s data privacy watchdog slapped online forum Reddit on Tuesday with a fine worth nearly $20 million for failures involving children’s personal information. The Information ...

AI is changing the way doctors diagnose health conditions and treat patients. There’s a lot of optimism about its potential for improving health outcomes. However, because AI requires massive amounts ...

AES-256 remains the gold standard for high-stakes data encryption. While other, more lightweight and less-energy-intensive encryption methods do exist, they operate with multiple trade-offs in ...