The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has advanced two high-profile child safety bills that could remake large parts of ...

Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required makers of web browsers and mobile operating systems to let consumers send ...

A key House committee advanced two high-profile proposals to expand online privacy and safety protections for children on ...

Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov said on Sept 23 that the messaging platform had removed more “problematic ...

The Tennessee Republican asked for details about the company CEOs’ awareness of the “active listening” software, whether ...

In a world where personal data fuels digital ecosystems and privacy concerns cast long shadows, Google is walking a fine line. With its latest feature—“Confidential Matching”—the tech giant aims to ...

The Federal Trade Commission said social media and streaming companies including YouTube, Amazon and Facebook fail to ...

A.I. is being used to target customers with hefty tickets. Experts say the tech may also be used against abortion-seekers and undocumented immigrants.

Rich Johnston, a father of two school-aged children in Atlanta, thought AOL Instant Messenger was bad enough. Johnston recently told me that “away messages screwed with people’s brains,” stressed them ...

Multiple countries have tried but failed to effectively curb social media access. Will Australia’s attempt be different?

The level of data that can be gathered by modern cars is staggering, but this issue goes much deeper than people's car ...

Content moderation is a neglected backstop for businesses designed to draw in big audiences, and extract the strongest possible reactions from them in the process.