The filmmakers who brought The Coddling of the American Mind to the big screen discuss the students whose stories inspired the film and the state of the media, Hollywood, and storytelling.
The surveillance company mSpy just suffered its third data breach in a decade, exposing government officials snooping for both official and unofficial reasons.
A year after a court told Maryland police that Cellebrite searches were too broad, Baltimore quietly resumed using the software.
We need parents with better phone habits, not more government regulation of social media.
The intelligence community is admitting that info from data brokers is sensitive but isn’t accepting hard limits on how to use it.
The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station.
Teens who use social media heavily also spend the most in-person time with friends.
Only 22 of the 476 studies in The Anxious Generation contain data on either heavy social media use or serious mental issues among adolescents, and none have data on both.
A new survey highlights how fear-based parenting drives phone-based childhoods.
Jonathan Haidt’s clever, insufficient case against smartphones.
Plus: A listener asks about the absurdity of Social Security entitlements.
If you fail to see a problem with Apple's actions, you may not be an overzealous government lawyer.
Byron Tau's Means of Control documents how the private sector helps government agencies keep tabs on American citizens.
Many apps collect data that is then accessed by outside entities. Should you care?
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel has initiated a new rulemaking that would enact what are largely the same net neutrality rules tried back in 2016.
The video site took out ads touting social media's benefits.
Unwired makes an unconvincing argument for heavy-handed tech regulation.
Abortion and privacy activists join over concerns that cell phones track our movements.
We once ranked No. 4 in the world, according to the Heritage Foundation. Now we're 25th.
Snooping through emails, video, and photos isn’t the same as stumbling on containers full of cocaine.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence warned that the practice threatens civil liberties, risks "mission creep," and could increase intelligence agencies' power.
The lawsuit blames the companies for stoking "anxiety, depression, thoughts of self-harm, and suicidal ideation."
Our mobile devices constantly snitch on our whereabouts.
Plus: Police sue Afroman for using footage from raid, California bill could ban popular junk foods, and more...
Photos and information you store on iCloud will be safer from hackers, spies, and the government.
Plus: Court rejects Biden plea on student loan plan, Ohio cops don't understand the First Amendment, and more...
A Ninth Circut panel split 2-1 over whether First Amendment concerns should prevent congressional investigatos from obtaining cell records for Arizona's Republican Party Chair.
Plus: The Respect for Marriage Act, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, and more...
If Europe really cared about e-waste it would stop mandating inefficient products.
Consumers lose out when compliance costs prevent services from ever entering the market.
Plus: New rules on sex discrimination in education, economists warn of housing market exuberance, and more...
WhatsApp and iMessage are not as private as you might think.
An FBI document reminds us: Your cell phone provider knows where you've been—and will tell the feds.
Regulating privacy protections would put the public at greater risk than criminals.
Law enforcers have plenty of tools; they just want to paw through our data without effort or expense.
A 2018 Supreme Court decision was supposed to protect your location data from federal snooping. That’s not what happened.
