Madeline Hughes

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — All children under 18 need to be protected on the internet, according to California lawmakers, who recently approved a new law that would extend online data protections to all children. They sent the bill, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, to Gov. Gavin... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission heard hours of testimony Thursday on how the commission should address data privacy concerns, particularly when companies use deceptive tactics to track consumers or data breaches occur. The commissions’ five-plus hour forum and public hearing on data privacy comes as... Read More

WASHINGTON — As cybercrimes are on the rise, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is asking people, businesses and other organizations for feedback on what its new reporting rules should look like. The agency released the eight-page request for information Friday asking people how the agency... Read More

WASHINGTON — Facebook’s user data is scattered throughout its system in such a way no one person could detail exactly what information the social media company collects on an individual. This is according to recently unsealed court documents from the California-based lawsuit against Facebook for the... Read More

WASHINGTON — Without any particular online data privacy law on the books, United States regulators are looking to crack down on how internet service providers and other technology companies are using Americans’ data. The target: geolocation data. “Geolocation data is collected usually through your mobile device,... Read More

WASHINGTON — Nearly two decades on social media and the issues of misinformation and harassment are glaring, according to Appu Esthose Suresh, the founder and chief executive of Pixstory. He’s one of the many social media company founders working to fix the issues of misinformation and... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission has taken a large step in creating its newest and most accurate broadband maps that intend to lay out, location by location, the homes, businesses, civic centers and other places without internet.  “For the first time ever, we have collected... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission just closed its 2.5 GHz spectrum auction, raking in $427 million for selling most of its licenses. The auction, which was the first of its kind selling county-based licenses, kicked off in late July. In total, companies bought 7,872 of... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday it is going after the credit score and report company Credit Karma for telling people they were approved for credit when they were not. “Credit Karma’s false claims of ‘pre-approval’ cost consumers time and subjected them to unnecessary... Read More