Data brokers collect thousands of details about each of use to create intricate data profiles. Here's how to minimize your data footprint.

The practice has been increasingly in the spotlight. Your questions about data brokers and personal information, answered.

Scammers target seniors who avoid social media by exploiting public records like obituaries and real estate filings to steal ...

Hundreds of secretive companies known as data brokers have access to some of the most intimate details about your life. And there’s not a U.S. law on the books that can stop them.

Data brokers make money by collecting and selling your personal details. They find your information from social media, public records, apps, loyalty cards, and online searches.

Scammers target older adults with fake retirement investment offers using personal information purchased from data brokers to ...

Your information is everywhere. Here's how data brokers collect your info, what they do with it, and how to stop them.

Data Brokers Know Where You Are—and Want to Sell That Intel These firms could track whether you've visited your therapist's office or your ex's house.

Data brokers legally buy, sell and trade health information, but the practice risks undermining public confidence ...

Email addresses, phone numbers, shopping habits, birthdays and more are all being rolled into a monetizable data profile the companies and data brokers are using to better understand the needs and ...

When Steve Kroft and a team of 60 Minutes producers embarked on this week's story about data brokers, the first question was how to identify a data broker company. "The majority of these companies ...