Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients. Here’s how to get a copy of what they have on you.
Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real
On January 15, a Norweigian Consumer Council (NCC) investigative report exposed the ways that Grindr, OKCupid, and eight other apps are collecting and sharing extremely sensitive personal data.
Your Data, Your Control
How data portability can unlock competition and empower consumers January 15, 2026 Copyright and permission to reproduce For information on the Competition Bureau's activities, please contact: Information Centre Competition Bureau 50 Victoria Street Gatineau QC K1A 0C9
Data Harvesting at Google Not a Rogue Act, Report Finds (Published 2012)
Google’s collecting of personal information from unsuspecting households was a program supervisors knew about, according to new details from the full text of a regulatory report.
A Nutrition Label, for Your PDS's Sake - Published Drafts
your data is yours now, which apparently means it's everyone’s
Opinion | The Dark Market for Personal Data (Published 2014)
Companies should disclose the information they sell about us.
What is your personal data worth?
Three markets trade your data. Get your price tag in each — free, private, sourced.
I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead
California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret (Published 2018)
Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.
Consumer Reports unveils 'Consumer Finance AI Standard' a first-of-its-kind framework defining what consumers are owed from AI-powered financial products
Washington, DC – Consumer Reports today published the Consumer Finance AI Standard, a first-of-its-kind framework defining the rights, protections, and design practices consumers are owed…
Measuring the Privacy Experience
How do you know that a product respects your privacy – other than by wading through the fine print? We’ve created a framework to measure the way people actually experience privacy in tech products.
How much do Google and Facebook profit from your data?
New privacy monitor tries to put a price tag on your privacy.
Facebook Data Privacy Scandal: A Cheat Sheet - TechRepublic
Read about the saga of Facebook's failures in ensuring privacy for user data, including how it relates to Cambridge Analytica, the GDPR, the Brexit campaign, and the 2016 US presidential election.
Everyone knows your location
How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.
Private data: developing a rubric for success - Paul's Leaflets
What will an effective solution look like?
Apple admits giving governments access to thousands of iPhones and other devices
Apple's Transparency Report reveals a 9 per cent rise in the number of demands for customer data in 2018
🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share. Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*. I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind. github.com/bretthollenbeck/fake-reviews-…
