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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) Motorola Razrs were all the rage. Since then, I've written about everything from consumer electronics to internet culture ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Access is a database management system program that combines the relational Access Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software development tools. In Microsoft Access, you ...

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 ...

Google is rolling out significant changes to its Maps Timeline feature, which tracks your location history. As part of this update, you will soon receive notifications that your Timeline data will be ...

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 ...