"Can we move away from the outdated notice-and-consent model to govern questions surrounding personal data?" FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter asked Tuesday. Read the whole story

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's probe of Twitter's editorial decisions "inflicted injury from the moment it was announced," a coalition of civil rights groups … Read the whole story

"We're on the verge of having platforms and companies so powerful and so influential in the political process that they're ungovernable," Nobel Prize-winning economist … Read the whole story

Facebook plans to prohibit advertisers from targeting ads to users under 18 based on their activity on websites and apps, as well as their … Read the whole story

If confirmed by the Senate, Kanter will lead the federal government's antitrust lawsuit against Google, which accuses the company of illegally monopolizing the search … Read the whole story

Two-thirds of the world has enacted legislation to protect consumer data privacy, but at least half of the jurisdictions have not mandated some form … Read the whole story

Children's Health Defense, an organization founded by vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is aiming to revive a lawsuit claiming its free speech rights … Read the whole story

The FTC was granted an additional three weeks to reformulate its antitrust complaint against Facebook. Read the whole story