The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the body responsible for issuing Aadhaar in India, has requested the Election Commission of India (ECI) to share data on dead voters, EC sources ...

If you’ve ever Googled yourself and found an address, phone number or family link you didn’t remember posting—welcome to the data broker ecosystem. It’s bigger than most people realize, and it doesn’t ...

a computer with the ChatGPT prompt displayed on screen with a person sitting by it - aileenchik/Shutterstock OpenAI has a Privacy Portal that lets you freely remove ...

Nicol Turner Lee, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, says the Golden State's Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP) could be a tool for other states to learn from and maybe adopt down the ...

Google launched a "Results about you" privacy and security feature for Google Search a few years ago, a tool that lets you request the removal of personal data from search results, which can come in ...

Someone approaching the task of removing their information from the web is in for a surprise. Your data isn't on just one or two websites but scattered across various databases run by private data ...

In May of 2025, MySQL celebrated its 30th anniversary. Not many technology projects go strong for three decades, let alone at the level of use that MySQL enjoys. MySQL is listed at #2 on the ...

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The operator of WorldCat won a default judgment against Anna’s Archive, with a federal judge ruling yesterday that the shadow library must delete all copies of its WorldCat data and stop scraping, ...

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SAN DIEGO — California residents now have a new way to protect their personal information from data brokers—companies that collect and sell consumer data—through a state platform. The platform, called ...