Google continues to violate a Washington state campaign finance law requiring it to disclose information about purchasers of political ads, Attorney General Bob Ferguson alleges in a new case again ...

"Some sites sneak extra items into a consumer's online shopping cart, or require users to navigate a maze of screens and confusing questions to avoid being charged for unwanted produc ...

The new feature, "Total Cookie Protection," prevents cross-site tracking by keeping cookies in what Firefox is calling a "cookie jar." ...

Handing the cable industry a defeat, a federal judge in California on Tuesday refused to prohibit the state from enforcing its net neutrality law. ...

Egged on by former President Donald Trump, Republican policymakers spent the better part of 2020 clamoring to regulate social media platforms. ...

Virginia lawmakers have passed a privacy bill similar to a law that took effect last year in California. The bill now heads to Gov. Ralph Northam, who is expected ...

Journalist advocacy organization PEN America on Thursday dropped a lawsuit claiming the previous administration violated the First Amendment by retaliating against journalists who criticized former President Donald Trump. ...

Far from stemming fake news or hate speech, Maryland's new tax on digital ads will leave the internet "overrun by low-quality 'junk,'" the Chamber of Commerce, Internet Association and othe ...

The proposed bill is "based on the outdated 'notice and opt out' framework which underpins the current system of commercial surveillance," Consumer Federation of America argues. ...

The cable industry and state of California say there is no reason to delay a hearing scheduled for next week on the validity of the state's net neutrality law ...

Parler stated Monday it will be "built on sustainable, independent technology and not reliant on so-called 'Big Tech' for its operations." ...

The new Maryland law imposes imposes taxes on companies that have more than $100 million in digital ad revenue. ...

The White House says in new court papers it's evaluating whether the attempted ban was justified. ...

Advocacy groups including Public Knowledge, Common Cause and Free Press, as well as officials in Santa Clara County, are urging the FCC to restore the Obama-era open internet rules. ...

The Department of Justice on Monday withdrew a lawsuit challenging California's net neutrality law, which largely requires broadband providers that offer service in the state to follow the Obama-era regulati ...

Without net neutrality rules, broadband providers "have the incentive and ability to harm competition and consumers," Incompas writes in a petition to the FCC. ...

Three Senate Democrats have unveiled a new bill that would strip tech companies of their protections against civil lawsuits for a broad range of posts by users. Critics say t ...

Tech companies would face fines of $100,000 per day for de-platforming political candidates in Florida, under a proposal by the state's governor. ...

NYU report also recommends amending, rather than repealing, Section 230. ...

Lawmakers in Massachusetts have introduced a bill that would require Comcast to wait until the pandemic ends before following through on its plan to implement a 1.2 TB data ...

Voter advocacy groups have appealed a trial judge's dismissal of their lawsuit challenging former President Trump's executive order regarding social media. ...

"North Dakota should not adopt a one-size fits all consent requirement for the sale of protected data," the Association of National Advertisers, American Association of Advertising Agencies, Interactive Advertising Burea ...

Dozens of civil rights groups and other watchdogs are urging the new administration to avoid repealing or weakening Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 25-year-old media law th ...

Lawmakers in Washington state have advanced a privacy bill that would require companies to obtain people's opt-in consent before drawing on "sensitive" data for ad targeting. ...

Slaughter has emerged in recent years as one of the agency's toughest critics of tech companies. ...

FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, one of the agency's leading proponents of net neutrality regulations, has been tapped by President Joe Biden to serve as acting chair of the agency. ...

Sen. Marco Rubio's letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey requested an explanation for the company's failure to remove or label a falsified image posted by a member of the Chine ...

Before leaving office, President Trump released a long list of pardons. Among them was Anthony Levandowski, former Google engineer who pleaded guilty to stealing technology related to self-driving cars before becomi ...

President Trump's planned TikTok ban would harm people who post content to the service for profit, three influencers tell appeals court. ...

In a first, the Federal Trade Commission is requiring a company prosecuted for privacy violations to notify consumers that it shared information about them with outside companies. ...