User data protection is a universal concern for businesses across all industries. In the digital age, personal data is a valuable asset, and its compromise can lead to severe financial and ...

A security lapse at dating app Raw publicly exposed the personal data and private location data of its users, TechCrunch has found. The exposed data included users’ display names, dates of birth, ...

Earlier this month, when U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta issued penalties against Google for monopolizing the search engine market, he stopped short of the harshest ones — like forcing the breakup of ...

Update, April 1, 2025: This story, originally published March 31, has been updated with information from a conversation with ThinkingOne, who released the latest X data, as well as more details ...

As consumers become more privacy aware, an increasing number of startups are emerging to — in line with the trend — enable people to monetize their data. Datacy, for example, lets users collect their ...

Customers fear their data may be sold to a new company. Over the weekend, genetic testing and biotechnology company 23andMe filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Founded in 2006, the company became popular ...

Like many people today, you may turn to AI to answer questions, generate content, and gather information. But as they say, there's always a price to pay. In the case of AI, that means user data. In a ...

Firefox maker Mozilla deleted a promise to never sell its users’ personal data and is trying to assure worried users that its approach to privacy hasn’t fundamentally changed. Until recently, a ...

Anthropic updated its AI training policy. Users can now opt in to having their chats used for training. This deviates from Anthropic's previous stance. Anthropic has become a leading AI lab, with one ...

For millions of Spotify users, the “Wrapped” feature—which crunches the numbers on their annual listening habits—is a highlight of every year’s end, ever since it debuted in 2015. NPR once broke down ...