Any entity that is a “business,” as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and that knowingly collects and sells to third parties the personal ...

The first time I tried to remove my personal information from people search sites, it was back online after a few weeks. If the same thing happened to you, you might have decided it's just not worth ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai lead a panel at the Google Midlothian Data Center on November 14, 2025 in Midlothian, Texas. Getty Images Developers hoping to get 184 ...

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a computer with the ChatGPT prompt displayed on screen with a person sitting by it - aileenchik/Shutterstock OpenAI has a Privacy Portal that lets you freely remove ...

Florida lawmakers passed a bill preventing data center costs from increasing residents' utility bills. The final version of the bill removed a requirement for public disclosure of new data center ...

Another possible data center has been scrapped after community objections. This one was in New Jersey, where locals and environmental activists protested the plan. Data centers have become a flash ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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