Increasingly data-hungry retailers have been quietly leveraging customers’ smartphones to track their movements within stores in recent years. But a new website will allow you to opt out if you’d ...

OpenAI's GPTBot Will Scrape Your Website to Train Its AI, Unless You Opt Out A new web crawler dramatically expands the amount of data OpenAI's models will train on, but the company says you can opt ...

Tired of annoying spam calls and texts? A new program will help California residents dodge more of them in 2026. The ...

The first day for workers in Washington state to opt out of the WA Cares Fund started with a crash. By 11 a.m. Friday, the state’s website to apply for an exemption to the new long-term care insurance ...

Large language models are trained on all kinds of data, most of which it seems was collected without anyone’s knowledge or consent. Now you have a choice whether to allow your web content to be used ...

Californians can now stop data brokers from selling their personal information through a new state program. The Delete ...

This week, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law new legislation that will give Californians the ability to easily opt out of digital data collection with a simple portal that should apply ...

Anything you’ve ever posted online—a cringey tweet, an ancient blog post, an enthusiastic restaurant review, or a blurry Instagram selfie—has almost assuredly been gobbled up and used as part of the ...

Starting Thursday, Californians can request more than 500 different data brokers to delete their personal information.