Learn about how to keep yourself safe and secure online with the fundamentals of data protection and data privacy.
Credit bureaus, also known as Consumer Reporting Agencies (CRAs) in the United States, are the referees when it comes to relationships between companies, consumers and debt collection agencies. These nationwide bureaus keep a record of your personal credit status by aggregating everything about your financial history: outstanding loans, available credit, open and closed accounts, collections […]
Browser fingerprinting tracks your online behavior, allowing others to know who you are as you browse the internet — all without any need for account logins or cookies. Just like a human fingerprint, your browser has a set of unique traits that can be traced back to you — and everything you do on the […]
Similar to your Social Security number, your smartphone has a unique fingerprint. It’s something that sticks with your device and thus can be used to track your movements across websites and apps. Once the largest data brokers know which person is attached to which device, they can build eerily accurate profiles about you. Marketing and […]
The United States has the dubious honor of being the world’s most breached country. For a population of 326 billion, we had 6 billion personal records hacked, leaked or stolen in 2019. That’s 19 per person! Part of the problem is that we have so much data floating around, being bought and sold by data […]
There are millions of data breaches every year. Equifax. LinkedIn. Yahoo. Banking apps. Business software…We even built a recent data breach tracker to keep tabs on them all! It seems that no place is safe or invincible against hackers looking to steal your personal information. What’s worse is that hackers are using a variety of […]
If you’ve ever asked yourself, or anyone, the question, “what are data brokers,” then congratulations, dear friend. You have taken the most basic step you’ll need to protect your privacy on the internet and to protect yourself in the physical world. How? Well, you’ve chosen to educate yourself. The relatively unrestrictive privacy laws in the […]
Data is everywhere. Every time you click, tap, post, submit, purchase, comment or like, Another data point has created. With access to enough of these data points, you can paint a complete picture about a person. Phone companies, departmental stores, hospitals, schools, libraries, and nearly every other place of public use or interest, store your […]
Your personal data & contact info is likely held by thousands of companies, being bought and sold every day for marketing purposes (because of fine print when you clicked "I Agree"), just waiting for a data breach to expose your info to spammers, hackers and identity thieves on the dark web. Entrust Privacy Bee to fight on your behalf and we'll continually force marketers and data brokers to purge your info from their systems!
