There’s a chance that ChatGPT knows personal details about you—and if it doesn’t, it might just make something up. As OpenAI’s generative text chatbot has boomed in popularity over the past six months ...

With data brokers making big money by selling your personal details, it’s never been easier for spammers and scanners to get access to your phone number, email address, physical address, and even ...

Whether to protect against identity theft, to protect our privacy or to regain control over our information, there are numerous reasons for wanting to delete personal data from the internet. And there ...

Mary-Elisabeth is an associate writer on CNET's How-To team. She's a recent graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill's English Department, and resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. On the How-To team, she covers a ...

The internet is a dangerous place. If it seems like scammers, hackers, and spammers are lurking around every corner, that's because they are. Malicious individuals are always looking to take advantage ...

It sounds impossible and it ultimately is, but you can get surprisingly close to deleting yourself from the internet in 2025. Here’s how. There are many reasons you might want to “delete yourself” ...