"We are aware of a text message sent in error to some members of the public," a New York IT office spokesperson told Newsweek ...

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Social Security Administration is warning seniors about a new scam that ...

Recent bipartisan privacy and online safety initiatives reflect growing concern over youth mental health, online exploitation, and ...

Private equity firm GTCR can move forward with its acquisition of medical device coatings maker Surmodics , a federal judge in Chicago ruled on Monday, rejecting the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's ...

The federal government has been shut down for over a month. We previously reported on implications for the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) ...

We can thank the first generation of social media products for exploiting teenage vulnerabilities, which paved the way for the rapid adoption of AI.

The numbers tell a story of stagnation and perhaps the beginnings of general decline: Time spent on social media peaked in ...

Social media provides widespread access to nutritional information from varying sources – not all of which is explicitly backed by data. With social media platforms allowing content to reach broad ...

Some lawmakers and schools are resorting to tech bans.

A federal court has paused a Colorado law that requires social media companies warn young users about the potential harms of ...

Under a law passed last year, companies must program warnings to pop up every 30 minutes once a minor user has spent an hour or more on a platform in a 24-hour period, or between the hours of 10 p.m.

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson warns of online radicalization, vows to protect kids in the A.I. race and crack down on ticket bots to lower costs for families on ‘Varney & Co.’ ...