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

"Absent effective neutrality rules, ISPs can -- and do -- act as self-interested gatekeepers," digital rights organizations tell a federal appellate court. ...

A bipartisan bill introduced Tuesday would restrict online companies' ability to use behavioral targeting techniques on users younger than 16. ...

Twitter's challenge to an investigation by Texas AG is "premature," because Paxton lacks the authority to sanction Twitter for failing to comply with his probe, a federal judge ruled Tues ...

"Use of social media can be detrimental to the health and well-being of children, who are not equipped to navigate the challenges of having a social media account," 44 attorne ...

News Media Alliance is stepping up efforts to urge lawmakers to pass the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which would allow news organizations to band together to negotiate with Goog ...

The "Online Consumer Protection Act," introduced by Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Kathy Castor, would allow the FTC to prosecute social media platforms that don't establish or implement policies regarding conten ...

"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 repo ...

California is urging a federal appeals court to leave in place a state net neutrality law that broadly prohibits broadband carriers from blocking or throttling traffic and from charging high ...

On Wednesday, after a Facebook-appointed panel declined to reinstate former President Donald Trump's account, Sen. Roger Wicker suggested curbing the company's right to moderate content. ...

"In short, New York has overstepped its regulatory authority," broadband organizations allege in a lawsuit seeking to invalidate a state law requiring $15 monthly service for some low-income residents. ...

A court rejected Snapchat's argument that Section 230 protects it from liability over a fatal accident involving a passenger using a 'speed filter.' ...

Amazon has lost another battle in California over whether it can be held liable for injuries caused by a defective product sold through the site's marketplace. ...

"If Congress does not act promptly, the FTC will be far less effective in its ability to protect consumers and execute its law enforcement mission." ...

TV broadcasters told a federal judge Friday that Locast isn't entitled to rely on a provision in the copyright law that allows nonprofits to boost TV signals. ...

A privacy bill passed by the Florida House "missed the mark, and will negatively impact local businesses with needless additional expenses for measures that fail to deliver meaningful privacy protectio ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday made it harder for the FTC to obtain restitution for people harmed by deceptive or fraudulent practices. ...

The Bust Up Big Tech Act would ban tech companies that market cloud services, search engines, marketplaces, and exchanges from advertising or selling their own goods and services on the ...

Siding with Google, a federal appellate court refused to reinstate a lawsuit by commentator Bob Lewis, who claimed the company violated his rights by demonetizing some of the videos ...

Republican U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado should be ordered to immediately stop blocking former state lawmaker Brianna Buentello on Twitter, she argues in a new court filing. ...

The House Judiciary committee has approved a staff report alleging that Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google abused their "tremendous power." ...

Republican staff in the House suggest broadening the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, limiting Section 230 protections ...

"New and incoming leadership at the Department of Commerce and other interested agencies need additional time to consider potential options," lawyers for the Dept. of Justice wrote in reports fil ...

"Facebook's long track record of exploiting young people and putting them at risk makes the company particularly unsuitable as the custodian of a photo sharing and social messaging site f ...

"The very concept of state regulation of data use is problematic," the free-market group TechFreedom writes. "Unless states apply the same rules to data that passes through their borders ...

"These draft settlement documents, replete with proposed revisions, reflect Facebook's confidential commercial information," the company writes in papers filed late last week with the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals. ...

Facebook is telling a federal judge that its ability to protect users from scraping depends on its power to prevent companies like BrandTotal from collecting data from the site. ...

"Twitter did not create, implement, or execute systems that honored users' designations as to use of their telephone numbers," lawyers for Washington state resident Darlin Gray say in new cou ...

Members of the right-wing conspiracy group QAnon lack grounds to claim that Google violated their First Amendment rights by taking down YouTube videos, the company argues. ...

In a lawsuit filed Thursday, an advocacy group says Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton engages in viewpoint-based discrimination by blocking Twitter users who criticize him or his policies. ...