Identity theft from data broker breaches cost consumers an estimated $21 billion. The brokers now promise to make it easier to opt out.

Four data brokers make their opt-out pages more accessible after a US senator calls them out for indexing tricks that prevented people from asking to have their data deleted.

A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.

Gigasoft releases ProEssentials v10 with GPU compute shaders and publishes six-part WPF chart library comparison for ...

Q: Why is Google Photos AI search so bad and can I turn it off? A: If searching your photos — and especially your videos — feels worse than it used to, you’re not imagining it. Many users can no ...

The European Union will tell Alphabet’s GOOGL0.64%increase; green up pointing triangle Google how to give competitors access to search data and Android AI tools as it prepares guidance on complying ...

Three years after Russell M. Nelson issued his 2018 edict that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — and everyone else — essentially purge “Mormon” from their lexicon, writer ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is rolling out a new option to personalize search results by tapping user data from the tech giant’s other applications, its latest bid to keep ahead of competition from the ...

Google has filed its appeal to the Department of Justice’s antitrust case that ended with a federal judge ruling that the company was maintaining a monopoly with its search business. While the company ...

Google has filed a federal lawsuit against SerpApi, accusing the Texas firm of using “parasitic” methods to scrape and resell search results. Google alleges that SerpApi bypasses security walls like ...

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Google announced today at the Search Central Live event in Zurich that Search Console is rolling out more granular data. Google launched weekly and monthly views in Search Console for performance ...