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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about privacy including AI, privtech, data justice and law. 23andMe’s bankruptcy announcement on March 23rd triggered ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re like me, you’ve created hundreds of accounts online over the years. Time goes by, and eventually, you forget about a lot of them, but the accounts are still there, waiting for you patiently ...

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 ...

Many users browse daily without realising how much data their browser stores. Here’s how to delete your browsing history on all major browsers.

Although Microsoft collects diagnostic data from your computer, it is possible to delete them if you want to. If you do not wish to allow other users to delete diagnostic data in Windows 11/10, you ...

Xbox Series X/S, like all other consoles, has a feature where users can save their game data on the hard drive or SSD. It is easy to believe that deleting saved game data from an Xbox Series X/S is a ...