Update, Dec. 26, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 24 now includes additional information regarding how to recover an inactive account you can’t remember the password for before it gets ...

More than 300,000 Californians have demanded that hundreds of data brokers erase information about their locations, finances, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. In a quiet but urgent race against time, groups of ...

More than 600 data brokers must begin processing deletion requests Aug. 1 through California's DROP privacy platform.

Google will delete billions of data records as part of a settlement for a lawsuit that accused the tech giant of improperly tracking the web-browsing habits of users who thought they were browsing the ...

Google's purge of Gmail data and photos belonging to inactive accounts is set to begin Friday, December 1. "Starting later this year, if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least ...

23andMe has capped off a challenging few years by filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. Given the uncertainty around the future of the DNA testing company and what will happen to all of the genetic ...

DNA testing service 23andMe has undergone serious upheaval in recent months, creating concerns for the 15 million customers who entrusted the company with their personal biological information. After ...