Privacy Guide

Which States Let You Delete Your Data?

About 20 states now give residents the legal right to delete their personal data. If yours is one, you can compel businesses to erase it. If not, you are not...

Which States Let You Delete Your Data?

About 20 states now give residents the legal right to delete their personal data. If yours is one, you can compel businesses to erase it. If not, you are not...

Does the US Have a Federal Data Privacy Law?

No, and that is the whole problem. Your right to see and delete your data depends on which state you live in, and even where the rights exist, using them...

Does the US Have a Federal Data Privacy Law?

No, and that is the whole problem. Your right to see and delete your data depends on which state you live in, and even where the rights exist, using them...

How to Help Your Aging Parents Protect Their Pr...

Older adults are targeted more, and lose more, because scammers can buy their details cheaply. Here is how to help a parent lock down their privacy without taking over their...

How to Help Your Aging Parents Protect Their Pr...

Older adults are targeted more, and lose more, because scammers can buy their details cheaply. Here is how to help a parent lock down their privacy without taking over their...

How to Freeze Your Credit, Step by Step

A credit freeze is the single strongest, and free, defense against new-account identity theft. Here is how to freeze all three bureaus, and how it differs from a fraud alert...

How to Freeze Your Credit, Step by Step

A credit freeze is the single strongest, and free, defense against new-account identity theft. Here is how to freeze all three bureaus, and how it differs from a fraud alert...

What Your Personal Data Is Actually Worth

To advertisers, your data is worth pennies at massive scale. To criminals, a full identity runs under a hundred dollars, and medical records outsell credit cards. Here is the real...

What Your Personal Data Is Actually Worth

To advertisers, your data is worth pennies at massive scale. To criminals, a full identity runs under a hundred dollars, and medical records outsell credit cards. Here is the real...

SIM Swapping: How Scammers Hijack Your Phone Nu...

A SIM swap lets a criminal steal your phone number, intercept your text codes, and drain your accounts, and they pull it off using personal details from people-search sites.

SIM Swapping: How Scammers Hijack Your Phone Nu...

A SIM swap lets a criminal steal your phone number, intercept your text codes, and drain your accounts, and they pull it off using personal details from people-search sites.