Whenever a new privacy rule comes on the scene, people immediately look for a workaround. Virginia’s ban on the sale of precise geolocation data will be no exception; its narrow definition of a “sale” ...

The House on Thursday unanimously passed a major data privacy bill that would give consumers new rights and impose restrictions on companies' use of personal information. Representatives voted 146-0 ...

The FTC has reached a proposed settlement with data broker Kochava and its subsidiary, Collective Data Solutions, that would bar them from selling sensitive location data without consumers’ explicit ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary Collective Data Solutions (CDS) from selling location data without consumers' explicit consent to settle charges ...

Backing up your Pragmata save file, or otherwise knowing where to find it, can be incredibly helpful for data preservation and restoration or potential troubleshooting. Thankfully, the save file isn’t ...

AI agents run on file systems using standard tools to navigate directories and read file paths. The challenge, however, is that there is a lot of enterprise data in object storage systems, notably ...

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TikTok said Wednesday that it's rolling out a new local feed that shows videos from nearby businesses and services based on users' precise geolocation data. Users of the social media platform will now ...

The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday it has finalized an order that bans General Motors and its OnStar telematics service from sharing certain consumer data with consumer reporting agencies.

The case with GM was the first action by the federal agency regarding connected vehicle data. A New York Times investigation in 2024 concluded that GM sold customer data to global data broker ...