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Loyalty programs may save you money at checkout, but the real price is your data.
Consumer Reports found Kroger made $527M last year selling shopper data.
Your groceries aren’t all they’re tracking. Make sure you know the cost before you join a loyalty program.
Consumer Reports found Kroger made $527M last year selling shopper data.
Your groceries aren’t all they’re tracking. Make sure you know the cost before you join a loyalty program.
November 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Loyalty programs may save you money at checkout, but the real price is your data.
Consumer Reports found Kroger made $527M last year selling shopper data.
Your groceries aren’t all they’re tracking. Make sure you know the cost before you join a loyalty program.
Consumer Reports found Kroger made $527M last year selling shopper data.
Your groceries aren’t all they’re tracking. Make sure you know the cost before you join a loyalty program.
🦃 From our team to your family:
Happy Thanksgiving!
We're grateful for the work we get to do every day: helping people take back control of their personal data and stay safe online.
Thank you for trusting us to protect what matters most.
Happy Thanksgiving!
We're grateful for the work we get to do every day: helping people take back control of their personal data and stay safe online.
Thank you for trusting us to protect what matters most.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
🦃 From our team to your family:
Happy Thanksgiving!
We're grateful for the work we get to do every day: helping people take back control of their personal data and stay safe online.
Thank you for trusting us to protect what matters most.
Happy Thanksgiving!
We're grateful for the work we get to do every day: helping people take back control of their personal data and stay safe online.
Thank you for trusting us to protect what matters most.
Holiday scam season is coming for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Brand impersonation in the form of emails, fake sites, and spoofed accounts spikes every year.
If you're a company, now's the time to warn your customers:
📢 What’s real
🚩 What’s not
🛡️ How to stay safe
Silence puts them at risk.
Brand impersonation in the form of emails, fake sites, and spoofed accounts spikes every year.
If you're a company, now's the time to warn your customers:
📢 What’s real
🚩 What’s not
🛡️ How to stay safe
Silence puts them at risk.
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Holiday scam season is coming for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Brand impersonation in the form of emails, fake sites, and spoofed accounts spikes every year.
If you're a company, now's the time to warn your customers:
📢 What’s real
🚩 What’s not
🛡️ How to stay safe
Silence puts them at risk.
Brand impersonation in the form of emails, fake sites, and spoofed accounts spikes every year.
If you're a company, now's the time to warn your customers:
📢 What’s real
🚩 What’s not
🛡️ How to stay safe
Silence puts them at risk.
Job scams tripled from 2020 to 2024.
AI makes scam emails sharing bad links look real.
Pressure makes them work.
Out of work? Protect yourself:
🛑 Opt out of data broker sites that share your email and phone number with scammers
🛡️ Verify the recruiter and company before you engage
Stay safe!
AI makes scam emails sharing bad links look real.
Pressure makes them work.
Out of work? Protect yourself:
🛑 Opt out of data broker sites that share your email and phone number with scammers
🛡️ Verify the recruiter and company before you engage
Stay safe!
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Job scams tripled from 2020 to 2024.
AI makes scam emails sharing bad links look real.
Pressure makes them work.
Out of work? Protect yourself:
🛑 Opt out of data broker sites that share your email and phone number with scammers
🛡️ Verify the recruiter and company before you engage
Stay safe!
AI makes scam emails sharing bad links look real.
Pressure makes them work.
Out of work? Protect yourself:
🛑 Opt out of data broker sites that share your email and phone number with scammers
🛡️ Verify the recruiter and company before you engage
Stay safe!
Still storing years of old employee and customer data?
You're putting yourself at risk of breaches and lawsuits.
The more data you keep, the more you may end up exposing.
Make regular deletion part of your security stack.
See how we're protecting our data: https://joindeleteme.com/security/
You're putting yourself at risk of breaches and lawsuits.
The more data you keep, the more you may end up exposing.
Make regular deletion part of your security stack.
See how we're protecting our data: https://joindeleteme.com/security/
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Still storing years of old employee and customer data?
You're putting yourself at risk of breaches and lawsuits.
The more data you keep, the more you may end up exposing.
Make regular deletion part of your security stack.
See how we're protecting our data: https://joindeleteme.com/security/
You're putting yourself at risk of breaches and lawsuits.
The more data you keep, the more you may end up exposing.
Make regular deletion part of your security stack.
See how we're protecting our data: https://joindeleteme.com/security/
“Send us your info so we can protect you.” Spoiler: It’s a scam.
Digital forensics expert Heather Barnhart shares how it's being used to steal from older adults.
🎧 Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heather-barnhart-hunts-digital-ghosts/id1571482669?i=1000732778070
Digital forensics expert Heather Barnhart shares how it's being used to steal from older adults.
🎧 Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heather-barnhart-hunts-digital-ghosts/id1571482669?i=1000732778070
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“Send us your info so we can protect you.” Spoiler: It’s a scam.
Digital forensics expert Heather Barnhart shares how it's being used to steal from older adults.
🎧 Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heather-barnhart-hunts-digital-ghosts/id1571482669?i=1000732778070
Digital forensics expert Heather Barnhart shares how it's being used to steal from older adults.
🎧 Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heather-barnhart-hunts-digital-ghosts/id1571482669?i=1000732778070
Your home address, phone number, and even your family details might be floating around on data broker sites right now.
DeleteMe finds and removes that info so you can finally relax, knowing your digital footprint is actually under control.
Learn more: 🛡️ joindeleteme.com
DeleteMe finds and removes that info so you can finally relax, knowing your digital footprint is actually under control.
Learn more: 🛡️ joindeleteme.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Your home address, phone number, and even your family details might be floating around on data broker sites right now.
DeleteMe finds and removes that info so you can finally relax, knowing your digital footprint is actually under control.
Learn more: 🛡️ joindeleteme.com
DeleteMe finds and removes that info so you can finally relax, knowing your digital footprint is actually under control.
Learn more: 🛡️ joindeleteme.com
BoardEx collects “actionable people intelligence” without your permission.
That means your personal info could be in their database right now.
Want out? Our quick guide shows you how to opt out in three steps.
📍 https://joindeleteme.com/blog/boardex-opt-out-guide/
That means your personal info could be in their database right now.
Want out? Our quick guide shows you how to opt out in three steps.
📍 https://joindeleteme.com/blog/boardex-opt-out-guide/
November 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
BoardEx collects “actionable people intelligence” without your permission.
That means your personal info could be in their database right now.
Want out? Our quick guide shows you how to opt out in three steps.
📍 https://joindeleteme.com/blog/boardex-opt-out-guide/
That means your personal info could be in their database right now.
Want out? Our quick guide shows you how to opt out in three steps.
📍 https://joindeleteme.com/blog/boardex-opt-out-guide/
Seth Godin invented permission marketing, so you can guess what he thinks about spam.
He joined Beau Friedlander on "What the Hack?" to talk about the best and the worst ways to get attention online.
🎧 Listen now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-hack/id1571482669
He joined Beau Friedlander on "What the Hack?" to talk about the best and the worst ways to get attention online.
🎧 Listen now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-hack/id1571482669
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Seth Godin invented permission marketing, so you can guess what he thinks about spam.
He joined Beau Friedlander on "What the Hack?" to talk about the best and the worst ways to get attention online.
🎧 Listen now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-hack/id1571482669
He joined Beau Friedlander on "What the Hack?" to talk about the best and the worst ways to get attention online.
🎧 Listen now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-hack/id1571482669
Your home address is probably online.
That’s a privacy and safety risk.
In her latest 30-Day Security Challenge video, Shannon Morse shows how to:
📬 Check for exposed info
📦 Set up a safer mailing address
📱 Use burner numbers
🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEXDruMq6dI
That’s a privacy and safety risk.
In her latest 30-Day Security Challenge video, Shannon Morse shows how to:
📬 Check for exposed info
📦 Set up a safer mailing address
📱 Use burner numbers
🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEXDruMq6dI
Your Address Is Online… Here’s How to Fix That!
YouTube video by Shannon Morse
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Your home address is probably online.
That’s a privacy and safety risk.
In her latest 30-Day Security Challenge video, Shannon Morse shows how to:
📬 Check for exposed info
📦 Set up a safer mailing address
📱 Use burner numbers
🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEXDruMq6dI
That’s a privacy and safety risk.
In her latest 30-Day Security Challenge video, Shannon Morse shows how to:
📬 Check for exposed info
📦 Set up a safer mailing address
📱 Use burner numbers
🎥 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEXDruMq6dI
Public data is a national security blind spot.
Due to the exposure of property records and brokered personal info, government officials face rising threats like doxxing, harassment, and swatting.
Data removal is no longer a luxury.
It can help ensure safety.
Due to the exposure of property records and brokered personal info, government officials face rising threats like doxxing, harassment, and swatting.
Data removal is no longer a luxury.
It can help ensure safety.
November 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Public data is a national security blind spot.
Due to the exposure of property records and brokered personal info, government officials face rising threats like doxxing, harassment, and swatting.
Data removal is no longer a luxury.
It can help ensure safety.
Due to the exposure of property records and brokered personal info, government officials face rising threats like doxxing, harassment, and swatting.
Data removal is no longer a luxury.
It can help ensure safety.
Data brokers don’t just collect your info.
They dox you for profit.
Our CEO Rob Shavell told Cybernews how brokers scrape your data, build profiles, and sell them to anyone with zero accountability.
Learn how we’re responding.
🧾 https://joindeleteme.com/
They dox you for profit.
Our CEO Rob Shavell told Cybernews how brokers scrape your data, build profiles, and sell them to anyone with zero accountability.
Learn how we’re responding.
🧾 https://joindeleteme.com/
November 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Data brokers don’t just collect your info.
They dox you for profit.
Our CEO Rob Shavell told Cybernews how brokers scrape your data, build profiles, and sell them to anyone with zero accountability.
Learn how we’re responding.
🧾 https://joindeleteme.com/
They dox you for profit.
Our CEO Rob Shavell told Cybernews how brokers scrape your data, build profiles, and sell them to anyone with zero accountability.
Learn how we’re responding.
🧾 https://joindeleteme.com/
Everyone’s focused on regulating AI models.
How about the data?
AI tools train on scraped, brokered, or user-submitted data.
DeleteMe found many can still share personal info in chats.
Without data regulation, AI safeguards will never work right.
Privacy must come first.
How about the data?
AI tools train on scraped, brokered, or user-submitted data.
DeleteMe found many can still share personal info in chats.
Without data regulation, AI safeguards will never work right.
Privacy must come first.
November 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Everyone’s focused on regulating AI models.
How about the data?
AI tools train on scraped, brokered, or user-submitted data.
DeleteMe found many can still share personal info in chats.
Without data regulation, AI safeguards will never work right.
Privacy must come first.
How about the data?
AI tools train on scraped, brokered, or user-submitted data.
DeleteMe found many can still share personal info in chats.
Without data regulation, AI safeguards will never work right.
Privacy must come first.
1.7% - that's how much eight months of phishing training improves recognition, according to researchers at Black Hat 2025.
Training has limits. Reducing employee data exposure online shrinks the attack surface and makes phishing campaigns far less effective.
Training has limits. Reducing employee data exposure online shrinks the attack surface and makes phishing campaigns far less effective.
November 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
1.7% - that's how much eight months of phishing training improves recognition, according to researchers at Black Hat 2025.
Training has limits. Reducing employee data exposure online shrinks the attack surface and makes phishing campaigns far less effective.
Training has limits. Reducing employee data exposure online shrinks the attack surface and makes phishing campaigns far less effective.
Scammers now use fake CAPTCHAs to hide phishing sites.
Step 1: Get an urgent email or text.
Step 2: Click, solve a CAPTCHA.
Step 3: Get redirected to a fake site that steals your info.
These attacks often find you because your personal data is already exposed online. Opting out helps protect you.
Step 1: Get an urgent email or text.
Step 2: Click, solve a CAPTCHA.
Step 3: Get redirected to a fake site that steals your info.
These attacks often find you because your personal data is already exposed online. Opting out helps protect you.
October 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Scammers now use fake CAPTCHAs to hide phishing sites.
Step 1: Get an urgent email or text.
Step 2: Click, solve a CAPTCHA.
Step 3: Get redirected to a fake site that steals your info.
These attacks often find you because your personal data is already exposed online. Opting out helps protect you.
Step 1: Get an urgent email or text.
Step 2: Click, solve a CAPTCHA.
Step 3: Get redirected to a fake site that steals your info.
These attacks often find you because your personal data is already exposed online. Opting out helps protect you.
Deepfakes don’t just hack systems. They hijack trust.
Rob Shavell of DeleteMe joined experts from Gartner and others in this Cybersecurity Law Report feature on how companies can fight back.
Read here:
🔗 https://www.cslawreport.com/21318271/how-to-create-a-program-to-combat-deepfakes.thtml
Rob Shavell of DeleteMe joined experts from Gartner and others in this Cybersecurity Law Report feature on how companies can fight back.
Read here:
🔗 https://www.cslawreport.com/21318271/how-to-create-a-program-to-combat-deepfakes.thtml
How to Create a Program to Combat Deepfakes
Deepfakes are not just another cybersecurity risk. They can strike at the heart of corporate credibility and undermine everyday business interactions. AI-based detection tech is improving and may help...
www.cslawreport.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Deepfakes don’t just hack systems. They hijack trust.
Rob Shavell of DeleteMe joined experts from Gartner and others in this Cybersecurity Law Report feature on how companies can fight back.
Read here:
🔗 https://www.cslawreport.com/21318271/how-to-create-a-program-to-combat-deepfakes.thtml
Rob Shavell of DeleteMe joined experts from Gartner and others in this Cybersecurity Law Report feature on how companies can fight back.
Read here:
🔗 https://www.cslawreport.com/21318271/how-to-create-a-program-to-combat-deepfakes.thtml
SpamGPT = a “CRM for cybercriminals.” It automates phishing, rotates servers to bypass filters, and uses AI to write convincing scams.
Protect yourself:
✔️ Enable MFA
✔️ Watch for urgent/pay-now emails
✔️ Keep software patched
✔️ Limit personal data online
Protect yourself:
✔️ Enable MFA
✔️ Watch for urgent/pay-now emails
✔️ Keep software patched
✔️ Limit personal data online
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
SpamGPT = a “CRM for cybercriminals.” It automates phishing, rotates servers to bypass filters, and uses AI to write convincing scams.
Protect yourself:
✔️ Enable MFA
✔️ Watch for urgent/pay-now emails
✔️ Keep software patched
✔️ Limit personal data online
Protect yourself:
✔️ Enable MFA
✔️ Watch for urgent/pay-now emails
✔️ Keep software patched
✔️ Limit personal data online
Prop 211 could force nonprofits to disclose donor names, addresses, and employers creating a searchable database for malicious actors.
With personal info already exposed by data brokers, the risks to staff and donors are amplified. Protecting privacy is protecting safety.
With personal info already exposed by data brokers, the risks to staff and donors are amplified. Protecting privacy is protecting safety.
October 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Prop 211 could force nonprofits to disclose donor names, addresses, and employers creating a searchable database for malicious actors.
With personal info already exposed by data brokers, the risks to staff and donors are amplified. Protecting privacy is protecting safety.
With personal info already exposed by data brokers, the risks to staff and donors are amplified. Protecting privacy is protecting safety.
💻 Every click, swipe, and search feeds data brokers. In a recent What the Hack? episode, Identity Theft Resource Center CEO Eva Casey-Velasquez breaks it down. Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-data-grift-everyone-missed/id1571482669?i=1000728005549
October 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
💻 Every click, swipe, and search feeds data brokers. In a recent What the Hack? episode, Identity Theft Resource Center CEO Eva Casey-Velasquez breaks it down. Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-data-grift-everyone-missed/id1571482669?i=1000728005549
Not all privacy services are the same. Some audit your data while others send risky blanket requests, called blind opt-outs.
The best data removal services confirm your info is exposed and make secure, targeted removals. Learn more: https://joindeleteme.com/blog/what-is-a-data-privacy-service/
The best data removal services confirm your info is exposed and make secure, targeted removals. Learn more: https://joindeleteme.com/blog/what-is-a-data-privacy-service/
October 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Not all privacy services are the same. Some audit your data while others send risky blanket requests, called blind opt-outs.
The best data removal services confirm your info is exposed and make secure, targeted removals. Learn more: https://joindeleteme.com/blog/what-is-a-data-privacy-service/
The best data removal services confirm your info is exposed and make secure, targeted removals. Learn more: https://joindeleteme.com/blog/what-is-a-data-privacy-service/
Steppingblocks looks like a career exploration tool, but it also collects and shares detailed personal data. Learn how to remove yourself and reduce your exposure: https://joindeleteme.com/blog/steppingblocks-opt-out-guide/
October 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Steppingblocks looks like a career exploration tool, but it also collects and shares detailed personal data. Learn how to remove yourself and reduce your exposure: https://joindeleteme.com/blog/steppingblocks-opt-out-guide/
A call from your "sister." Creepy texts from someone who knows too much.
Hackers recently targeted filmmaker Dan Sturman. It’s a reminder that protecting your data isn’t paranoia.
🎧 Full podcast episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wrong-dan-sturman/id1571482669?i=1000727015351
Hackers recently targeted filmmaker Dan Sturman. It’s a reminder that protecting your data isn’t paranoia.
🎧 Full podcast episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wrong-dan-sturman/id1571482669?i=1000727015351
October 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A call from your "sister." Creepy texts from someone who knows too much.
Hackers recently targeted filmmaker Dan Sturman. It’s a reminder that protecting your data isn’t paranoia.
🎧 Full podcast episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wrong-dan-sturman/id1571482669?i=1000727015351
Hackers recently targeted filmmaker Dan Sturman. It’s a reminder that protecting your data isn’t paranoia.
🎧 Full podcast episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wrong-dan-sturman/id1571482669?i=1000727015351
📊 Gartner says 62% of organizations faced deepfake attacks in the past year. These scams work because attackers feed on employee data, using it to mimic leaders’ voices, faces, and emails. The less data available, the harder these attacks become.
October 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
📊 Gartner says 62% of organizations faced deepfake attacks in the past year. These scams work because attackers feed on employee data, using it to mimic leaders’ voices, faces, and emails. The less data available, the harder these attacks become.
This week on "What the Hack?" we explore sponsored ads placed by scammers offering to recover lost social media accounts, and what you need to know to stay safe.
October 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This week on "What the Hack?" we explore sponsored ads placed by scammers offering to recover lost social media accounts, and what you need to know to stay safe.
A falling job market + AI layoffs = more desperation. That’s why job scams are exploding. Scammers use data broker info to pose as recruiters, trick applicants, and steal money or identities. This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, reduce your risk by limiting what data about you is available online.
October 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A falling job market + AI layoffs = more desperation. That’s why job scams are exploding. Scammers use data broker info to pose as recruiters, trick applicants, and steal money or identities. This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, reduce your risk by limiting what data about you is available online.