Dating app accused of flouting GDPR law by passing personal data to ad firms but report says problem is endemic

I left my job at the New York Post with no backup plan and no real prospects.

Over the course of a year, an amateur hacker exacted a wicked revenge on his ex-girlfriend, manipulating the criminal justice system, confounding police, and forcing her into an alternate reality of his own design.

Some of the biggest companies in the world are funding climate misinformation by advertising on YouTube, according to a study from activist group Avaaz. The group found that more than 100 brands had adverts running on YouTube videos on the site that were actively promoting climate misinformation. The brands, including Samsung, L’Oreal and Decathlon, were unaware that their adverts were being played before and during the videos.

Measure is aimed at preventing antisocial behaviour and improving quality of discussion

Japanese fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa is giving away $9 million to his Twitter ...

The actor Sacha Baron Cohen took the opportunity while presenting at the Golden Globes to take a swipe at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Baron Cohen was introducing "Jojo Rabbit," a satire about Nazi Germany as seen through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy in the Hitler Youth that was up for two Golden Globes.

More details are emerging about the scale and scope of disgraced data company Cambridge Analytica’s activities in elections around the world — via a cache of internal documents that’s being released by former employee and self-styled whistleblower, Brittany Kaiser.

So you're starting a new blog. Is your plan to blog anonymously or be open about your identity? Both have their pros and cons, as Darren Rowse explains.

Facebook announced measures to protect the 2020 U.S. election from foreign influence and misleading information last year. Now, the firm has announced that it is banning manipulated photos and videos, referred to as deepfakes, from its platforms, in a move aimed to curb misinformation ahead of the U.S. presidential election later this year.

The FBI and DOJ like to complain everything is "going dark." It isn't. The only thing that's still dark here is the FBI's FISA powers and the true number of encrypted devices in the FBI's possession. It's the...

In April 1997, Wired magazine published a feature with the grand and regrettable title “Birth of a Digital Nation.” It was a good time to make sweeping, sunny pronouncements about the future of the United States and technology. The US stood alone astride the globe. Its stock market was booming. Microsoft was about to become the world’s most valuable company, a first for a tech firm. A computer built by IBM was about to beat the world chess champion at his own game.

Social perception bias might simply be an emergent property of our social networks.

Fake followers. Fake news. Foreign influence operations. The last decade revealed that much of what's online is not as it seems.

And a corrupt U.S. government seems incapable and unwilling to do anything about it.

“Every $10 you donate = one nude picture from me to your DM. You must send me confirmation that you donated.”

Ten years ago, an unknown photo-sharing app called Instagram launched – and with it came a whole new breed of internet star.

The study comes after a series of New York Times articles published earlier this year about radicalization on Google-owned YouTube.

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday appeared to laugh off President Trump's attack after the 16-year-old was recognized as Time magazine's "Person of the Year." 

The Swedish star, 29, has been involved in accusations of racism and anti-Semitism in recent years.