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Are you worried that giant corporations and government agencies are indiscriminately collecting your personal data and then using it inappropriately? You're not alone. In a report released today, ...

Power Query in Excel is a powerful tool designed to streamline the process of importing, cleaning, and transforming external data. It enables you to prepare datasets for analysis efficiently, saving ...

To keep my personal data safe, I use a mix of secure local drives, encrypted cloud storage like ProtonDrive, and password managers like Bitwarden. I avoid oversharing online, enable two-factor ...

The landscape of data security and privacy is constantly changing. With a Gartner survey revealing that almost half of organizations with more than 11 marketing channels are increasing first-party ...

Users of ChatGPT in Europe can now use web forms or other means provided by OpenAI to request deletion of their personal data in order to stop the chatbot processing (and producing) information about ...

Don't sit around saying "it'll never happen to me" while your personal data is traded around the internet and becomes an increasing threat to your privacy, security, and finances. Delete it today.

The Trump administration's unprecedented efforts to aggregate the personal data of Americans are facing a new legal challenge. A class action federal lawsuit filed Tuesday argues the Trump ...

A lawsuit alleges OpenAI stole personal data from "millions of Americans" to train ChatGPT. The lawsuit alleges OpenAI crawled the web to amass huge amounts of data without people's permission. It ...