Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cybersecurity and data privacy are constantly in the news. Governments are passing new cybersecurity laws. Companies are investing ...

The personal data that companies collect from consumers online has become a big business referred to as data brokerage. However, most consumers don't know what personal information about them is being ...

Information has always been a form of currency in society—from buying favors to building connections and generating financial gain. Businesses rely on information; now more than ever. The more data ...

Data Privacy Day (or Data Protection Day) is an international event that occurs every year on 28 January. The purpose of Data Privacy Day is to raise awareness and ...

Organizations often struggle with privacy in a regulatory landscape that can change at any point. However, the risk of data breaches is always rising, and awareness of privacy rights is growing. As a ...

I belong to the last generation of Americans who grew up without the Internet in our pocket. We went online, but also, miraculously, we went offline. The clunky things we called computers didn’t come ...

The landscape of data security and privacy is constantly changing. With a Gartner survey revealing that almost half of organizations with more than 11 marketing channels are increasing first-party ...

Regardless of whether you have an AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon plan, your data is being tracked by default. Here's how to protect your privacy and turn it off. Eli covered the latest in the ever-changing ...

These days, the internet “looks a hell of a lot more like Las Vegas than ‘Little House on the Prairie.’” That’s how Andrew Ferguson, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, described the online ...

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Cybersecurity and data privacy are constantly in the news. Governments are passing new cybersecurity laws. Companies are investing in cybersecurity controls such as firewalls, encryption and awareness ...