Expanded privacy protections went into effect on July 1 under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act. Tong says the safeguards are ...

On Monday night, the House passed a weaker version of the Senate’s Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, aimed at regulating the tech industry and protecting children online. Whether this is a good thing ...

Google-owned YouTube has settled a social media addiction lawsuit brought by a Florida teen who accused the video-sharing ...

Google-owned YouTube has settled a social media addiction lawsuit brought by a Florida teen who accused the video-sharing giant of helping fuel a youth mental health crisis through features designed ...

A US judge has allowed a lawsuit against Meta to move forward over claims Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict ...

I'm not a shopaholic. Not a collector. I'm just a middle-aged man buying things I didn't know existed five minutes ago... I'm ...

Addictive apps. Persuasive features. Deceptive patterns. Is Big Tech’s ‘defective design’ really a design problem? A ...

The House-passed legislation stops short of demands in the Senate to impose a legal requirement on tech companies, such as ...

TikTok and YouTube have deactivated a total of around 4.7 million accounts belonging to Indonesian children since the country’s youth social media restrictions took effect in late March, the country’s ...

We are at the midpoint of this year, and it may be as good a time as any to take stock of the smartphones launched in the first half of 2026.