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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

You can get rid of your info manually or ask Google to clean up after you. You can get rid of your info manually or ask Google to clean up after you. Think about everything you do across Chrome, Gmail ...

For years, Google made it incredibly easy to look up someone’s address, phone number, age, and other personal info. All you had to do was type in a person’s name and where they live, and you’d get all ...

Deleting digital accounts that you rarely or never use not only reduces the amount of clutter in your online life—it keeps you safer too. Every extra account you've got is an extra target for a hacker ...

Megan Cerullo is a New York-based reporter for CBS MoneyWatch covering small business, workplace, health care, consumer spending and personal finance topics. She regularly appears on CBS News 24/7 to ...