Tax companies' practices of sharing 'pixels' with Meta revealed a wide range of sensitive data including taxpayers’ names, filing status, and addresses.
Data brokers can sell your location data to any paying customer but a Massachusetts bill designed to protect abortion-seekers would outlaw such sales.
European citizens can now file appeals against U.S. intelligence agencies for illegally accessing their data.
Welcome Privacy Sandbox: Google’s cookie-killing spree hits the browser in July. Here's what it means.
Apple is joining the ranks of other messaging companies who say the UK's online safety bill would ban end-to-end encryption.
Parents can view teens' time spent on Messenger and receive updates on contact list changes. Instagram tests a LinkedIn-style invite to direct message.
States across the country are racing to enact age-gating laws banning young users from accessing social media without their parent's consent.
Cops and prosecutors are fighting to continue hoovering up data, even if it means torpedoing a bill to protect reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare.
An interview with the FTC's consumer protection chief on how the agency is turning privacy laws upside down to pave the way for the internet we all deserve.
Hanan Elatr believes Saudi intelligence agents used NSO's Pegasus software for a yea to gain intelligence ultimately used to detain and execute her husband.
Digital service providers operating in Texas will be required to obtain consent from parents before allowing any users under 18 to create accounts.
Google's AI chatbot was supposed to launch in the EU this week but stalled after regulators said the company did not provide adequate privacy documentation.
A newly declassified report confirms that the government has unprecedented insight into our lives through smartphones, cars, web browsing, and other tech.
"Opiate Addiction," "Not That Jewish," and "Retiring On Empty" are just some of the hundreds of thousands of categories advertisers use to find you.
Three senators said recent news reports contradict CEO Shou Zi Chew's sworn testimony about where the app stores US user data.
Facebook says the FTC is trying to get around going to court. The FTC says Facebook repeatedly violated its $5 billion privacy agreement.
The FTC reached two landmark settlements with Amazon, one for violating kids' privacy and another for letting creeps watch home security camera videos.
Edmodo was hailed as an education savior, then it flopped. The FTC says it harvested kids data and sold them out to advertisers without parents' consent.
Meta says the record-breaking fine under the GDPR will cost the company 10% of its global ad revenue.
The FTC is imposing a consent decree on the period tracker for giving your data to advertisers. It's part of the agency's ongoing pro-consumer power grab.
