International Fraud Awareness Week 2026: AI, Fraud-as-a-Service, and Your Identity
International Fraud Awareness Week 2026 is November 15-21. The goal is to raise awareness about some of the most common types of fraud and scams, and…
November 13, 2026
AI Inferences and the Big Tech Reason Retailers Know More than They’re Telling You
A DeleteMe engineer co-built an AI called Priva-See that showed what ad tech can learn from your phone, and 465 people tested it. The result? With ju…
November 10, 2026
Meta Muse Wants Everything. Give it Nothing.
When Meta Muse Image came out allowing anyone to tag your public photos and use them as fodder for AI outputs, the outrage was enormous. The feature…
October 29, 2026
California’s DROP Is Live: What It Does, What It Doesn’t, and How to Use It
California’s Delete, Request, and Opt-Out Platform (DROP) lets Californians opt out of 600+ data brokers. It works better with DeleteMe. Here’s how t…
October 9, 2026
Why Doesn’t Gen Z Care About Privacy?
Why doesn’t Gen Z care about privacy? You can’t miss what you’ve never had. Today, it’s easy to dismiss privacy as something older generations romant…
September 9, 2026
The IDScan Breach Investigation and Your Privacy
This is not another breach involving email addresses and passwords. A dark web service called Nexus claimed to have scans of more than 150 million U…
September 4, 2026
Why “Everyone Already Has My Data Anyway” Is a Myth
Cybersecurity experts can be a little bossy: “Protect your data! Change your passwords! Eat your vegetables!” The rest of us are pretty g…
August 12, 2026
Meta’s Muse Image Backlash Isn’t the Win You Think It Is
Meta recently announced its Muse Image feature, which allowed anyone to tag public accounts and use the images displayed on those accounts to fuel AI…
July 30, 2026
Gift Card Fraud and How Scammers Use Kindness
Brian Ward’s dad is no fool, but that didn’t stop scammers from stealing $6000 through gift card fraud.
June 24, 2026
What Are the Latest Scams for Older Adults?
Every year, scams against older adults increase in number and sophistication. Many people have lost their entire retirement savings as a result.
June 9, 2026
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