April 16, 2025 - The advent of new software applications may pose challenges for collections in the course of discovery, in addition to the challenges faced at the identification and preservation ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with NetChoice's Carl Szabo, a critic of Florida's new social media restrictions for kids, about age verification and fears of data collection. Florida's governor last week ...

Discord, Pinterest, and Quora perform best in new 2025 social media privacy ranking Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, and X face penalties for poor privacy protections AI training policies and ...

A US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report published today follows the commission's four-year investigation into how nine social media companies and streaming services collect and use consumer data.

Social media and video streaming services have become so ingrained in daily life that many people are unaware of just how much personal data they're giving away – and how much of that data is being ...

Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems incorporating ...

Popular social media platforms and video streaming services pose serious risks to user privacy, with children and teenagers most at risk, the Federal Trade Commission found in a report published ...

Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP).

A new study reveals that Instagram and Facebook are the apps that collect the most user data. This is based on an assessment conducted by the website QR Code Generator, which analysed the privacy ...

Kassem Fawaz receives funding from the National Science Foundation. In the past, his research group has received unrestricted gifts from Meta and Google. Jack West does not work for, consult, own ...

Australia’s new under-16 ban is part of a broader global push to rein in how social media treats children, but other countries have mostly opted for age verification, parental consent and “duty of ...