What just happened? For years, Google's approach to personal privacy has relied largely on user requests and manual takedowns. The company is now expanding that process with new automation. An update ...

Google launched a "Results about you" privacy and security feature for Google Search a few years ago, a tool that lets you request the removal of personal data from search results, which can come in ...

As part of Safer Internet Day, Google unveiled updates to its “Results about you” and non-consensual explicit image removal tools. The “Results about you” tool already allows users to remove Search ...

Someone approaching the task of removing their information from the web is in for a surprise. Your data isn't on just one or two websites but scattered across various databases run by private data ...

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab is exploring using superconducting power lines in its data centers, which could potentially accelerate its massive U.S. build-out of the server ...

Water consumption by data centers and cryptomining facilities will be the focus of a new data-collection effort launched Friday by the Texas Public Utility Commission. Demand to build new data centers ...

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal ...

A data breach at robo-advisor Betterment exposed the personal information of nearly 1.4 million customers, according to a Thursday update from breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. Betterment ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – For the past several years, Florida’s 12 public universities have been prohibited from using state or federal funds for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs, following ...

Many popular apps collect far more personal data than they need to work. These 20 apps quietly gather your photos, location, contacts, and more—and you probably have at least one of them installed ...