The FTC is seeking public comment on "commercial surveillance," meaning the "collection, aggregation, analysis, retention, transfer, or monetization of consumer data and the direct derivatives of that information."

A right-wing political action committee sent text messages to Kansas residents in an effort to trick them into letting state lawmakers outlaw abortion.

Democratic lawmakers on Thursday introduced the Net Neutrality and Broadband Justice Act, which would classify broadband access as a utility service and empower the FCC to impose common carrier rules.

The Uncap America Act, unveiled by Senators Ray Lujan and Cory Booker, would ban internet service providers from capping data, as well as from pay-per-byte billing.

"History is too important to leave to the self-interest of copyright owners," law professors say in a friend-of-the-court brief siding with Internet Archive.

Robert F. Kennedy and other anti-vaxxers want a federal appeals court to order Senator Elizabeth Warren to withdraw a scathing letter she sent to Amazon about the book "The Truth About COVID-19."

Biden is expected to ask the FTC to crack down on unfair or deceptive practices regarding the collection and sharing of personal data, including health-related information, according to Axios.

A House panel advanced a sweeping privacy bill that, if passed, could require ad-tech companies to obtain consumers' affirmative consent to collect much of the data that fuels targeted online ads.

The privacy practices of websites and apps that offer information related to family planning have come under new scrutiny this year, given the possibility that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade.