New York ‘s Child Data Protection Act, available here, took effect on June 20. This is a landmark piece of legislation designed to enhance the online privacy and safety of minors. As concerns over ...

Many industries specifically target products and services to children, while others unintentionally reach children’s growing economic footprint. Because children’s status is both difficult to define ...

Arjun Bhatnagar is cofounder and CEO of Cloaked, a consumer-first privacy startup dedicated to bringing humanity back to the internet. In our digital world today, it can be an overwhelming challenge ...

Summary: Europe’s effort to protect children online has collided with its own privacy architecture. The ePrivacy derogation allowing voluntary CSAM scanning expired ...

Total identity fraud losses in the US were estimated at a whopping $43bn last year. While many of us are getting savvier about how we protect our personal information online, can we say the same about ...

Amazon has been ordered to pay the US government $25m by next week, as well as agreeing to change how it handles children’s data and what it collects through Alexa, its popular voice assistant. The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

According to a 2023 study led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter) and YouTube collectively ...

The fallout from Fortra’s mass ransomware attack continues to widen as the hackers claim a new victim: a children’s virtual mental health care startup. In a data breach disclosure filed with the Maine ...

Effect of Brachytherapy With External Beam Radiation Therapy Versus Brachytherapy Alone for Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer: NRG Oncology RTOG 0232 Randomized Clinical Trial Data-driven basic, ...

Educational websites directed at Brazilian students, including two created by state education secretariats, surveilled children and harvested their personal data. These websites not only watched ...

This week, the popular video-sharing app TikTok was hit with an almost $16 million (£12.7 million) fine from Britain's data watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The ICO justifies the ...