With just a few simple steps, you can safely pass your old computer along, and feel good knowing your personal data stays private.

However, despite these strong lines of defense, VPNs can’t stop companies, data brokers, and bad actors from gathering your personal details through other means, such as public records.

As Tomas Stamulis, Chief Security Officer at Surfshark, explains, the apps we use every day regularly collect our personal information. While some of this data is necessary for the applications ...

Likewise, you’ll be notified when new results which contain personal data like your name, phone number, email or home address show up online. At the same time, it’s now easier to request to ...

The lawsuit also alleges that the data includes personal information of deceased individuals. Bleeping Computer reports that the hacked data involves 2.7 billion records, with individuals having ...

With just a few simple steps, you can safely pass your old computer along, and feel good knowing your personal data stays private. Nicholas De Leon is a senior reporter for Consumer Reports ...