To protect your genetic data, requesting that 23andMe delete it is a crucial step. SOPA Images via Getty Images You probably don’t want your genetic data — which can reveal health information and ...
INDIA - Sept. 16, 2024: In this photo illustration, a 23andMe logo seen displayed on a smartphone and in the background. (Photo Illustration by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) In ...
If you use the internet, you've been in a data breach. Nearly every American is in multiple data breaches per year. There were over 3,000 major beaches in 2024 (registration required), with over 1.3 ...
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Face it: What you do online isn’t private. Even if you’re browsing in good ol’ incognito mode, you're still not anonymous. Incognito mode does have handy uses like keeping certain searches out of your ...
The truth is that your personal data is out there in the open, and that’s especially true if you haven’t taken the time to ensure your personal information is deleted and kept off the web. Fortunately ...
None of us signed up for our personal info to be bought and sold online. Between data brokers, people-search sites and all the other places our details end up, it happens constantly and usually ...
The smartwatches and fitness trackers that we strap to our wrists are intended to log our activity in minute detail—but there might also be times when you’d rather records weren’t collected. Whether ...
You probably don’t want your genetic data — which can reveal health information and at-risk medical conditions — out there for just anyone to see, but that is the fear for many folks right now as ...