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Two years after a 13-year-old girl's suicide, her parents say her phone still gets notifications from the AI bots that drove her to death.

Years After a Girl’s Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone

By Sharon Adarlo

The Centre for Social Justice in the UK has estimated that about 814,000 children ages three to five have access to social media.

Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content

By Sharon Adarlo

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body

By Sharon Adarlo

Busy parents are increasingly turning to OpenAI's ChatGPT for child rearing advice, medical information, and to entertain their kids.

Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children

By Sharon Adarlo

A cybernetics expert recently made a bold claim: he argues that online privacy has long since vanished, so we may as well embrace contact-tracing.

Tech Expert: Privacy Is a Myth, so We Might as Well Contact-trace

By Dan Robitzski

Senator Ron Wyden's new privacy bill would hold tech companies' CEOs responsible if they lie about protecting users' personal information.

New Privacy Bill Could Send Mark Zuckerberg to Jail

By Kristin Houser

In an attempt to convince its two billion users that it truly cares about their privacy, Facebook is opening a number of pop-up privacy check-up cafes.

Facebook is Opening Privacy Check-Up Cafes, for Some Reason

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon Echo Dot Kids is illegally collecting data on minors, alleges a new FTC complaint filed by a group of privacy advocates.

Amazon Alexa: Illegally Recording Kids, Privacy Advocates Allege

By Kristin Houser

Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus just shipped tens of thousands of Touch controllers bearing hidden messages.

Hidden Messages Suggest That Facebook Sees User Privacy as a Joke

By Kristin Houser

During a recent interview with law professor Jonathan Zittrain, Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly insisted against all evidence that Facebook promotes privacy.

Mark Zuckerberg Insists That Facebook Promotes Privacy

By Dan Robitzski

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Big Tech Splits Over Privacy Issues, at Least on the Surface.

By Dan Robitzski

In a Shift, Apple and Amazon Say They Are in Favor of Federal Privacy Regulation

In a Shift, Apple and Amazon Say They Are in Favor of Federal Privacy Regulation

By Victor Tangermann

By Turning Down 23andMe, Immigration Activists Are Actually Being Responsible About Genetic Privacy

By Turning Down 23andMe, Immigration Activists Are Actually Being Responsible About Genetic Privacy

By Dan Robitzski

Four Major Phone Carriers Just Did Something to Actually Protect Your Privacy

Four Major Phone Carriers Just Did Something to Actually Protect Your Privacy

By Kristin Houser

Encrypted Genomic Data Means People Can Participate in Research Without Sacrificing Privacy

Encrypted Genomic Data Means People Can Participate in Research Without Sacrificing Privacy

By Dan Robitzski

Even Europe’s New Privacy Laws Can’t Regulate Facebook

Even Europe’s New Privacy Laws Can’t Regulate Facebook

By Victor Tangermann