From your shopping habits to your address, data brokers have many of your most personal details. We show you how to check what's out there—and regain your privacy.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference in New York City, September 3, 2025. REUTERS NYPD boss Jessica Tisch and her rank and file keep scoring impressive wins ...

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...

As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. People who have applied for ...

The Trump administration restored a public database that showed how funding is apportioned to federal agencies following a recent order by a federal appeals court. Public access to the data was ...

Google has confirmed that some customers’ information has been stolen in a recent breach of one of its databases. In a blog post late on Tuesday, Google Threat Intelligence Group said one of its ...

'Vibe coding' — the act of letting AI code for you instead of creating the code manually — has become a popular method for speeding up coding projects and cutting down on human involvement in the ...

Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington on Tuesday, July 22. Photo by Henry Fernandez/VTDigger The Department of Corrections is working to create a public dashboard with data on ...

A suburban police department under investigation by the Illinois Secretary of State's office said that license-plate reader data shared with a Texas law enforcement agency was done so through a ...

On May 30, 2025, The New York Times published an article titled "Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans," detailing a supposed combined effort between the U.S. federal government and the ...

The surge in data company acquisitions continued Monday with Snowflake’s purchase of Crunchy Data. Cloud data platform Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Crunchy Data, a Postgres database ...

More than 184 million passwords may have been exposed in a massive data breach that experts are calling a “cybercriminal’s dream.” According to a new report by cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler ...