"Apple's update goes beyond any legitimate protection of users' privacy interests," two professors write in a report funded by Facebook.

A sweeping privacy bill introduced recently in New York cleared its first hurdle this week, when it was approved by the state Senate Consumer Protection Committee.

"Behavioral advertising generates profits by turning people into products and their activity into assets," the bill states.

"In April 2017, the country's largest broadband companies banded together to fund a campaign to generate millions of comments for the FCC's 2017 net neutrality rulemaking proceeding," a new report by the New York Attorney General says.