xThe Senate bill would defend civil rights and take on a range of online harms.The so-called SAFE TECH Act was introduced Friday by Sens. Mark Warner, Mazie Hirono and Amy Klobuchar.Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Getty ImagesMost PopularBulletinsTo give you the best possible experience, this site uses cookies. If you continue browsing. you accept our use of cookies. You can review our to find out more about the cookies we use.…xThe Senate bill would defend civil rights and take on a range of online harms.The so-called SAFE TECH Act was introduced Friday by Sens. Mark Warner, Mazie Hirono and Amy Klobuchar.Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Getty ImagesMost PopularBulletinsTo give you the best possible experience, this site uses cookies. If you continue browsing. you accept our use of cookies. You can review our to find out more about the cookies we use.WW…

xThe uprising has sparked a tense debate about the right way to stitch together the digital scraps of someone's life to publicly accuse them of committing a crime.Rioters scale the U.S. Capitol walls during the insurrection.Photo: Blink O'faneye/FlickrMost PopularBulletinsTo give you the best possible experience, this site uses cookies. If you continue browsing. you accept our use of cookies. You can review our to find out more about the cookies we use.…xThe uprising has sparked a tense debate about the right way to stitch together the digital scraps of someone's life to publicly accuse them of committing a crime.Rioters scale the U.S. Capitol walls during the insurrection.Photo: Blink O'faneye/FlickrMost PopularBulletinsTo give you the best possible experience, this site uses cookies. If you continue browsing. you accept our use of cookies. You can review our to find out more about the cookies we use.WW…

Senate’s biggest privacy advocates are sending letters to Facebook, Google, and Apple executives Thursday, following a recent TechCrunch that Facebook used an iOS and Android app to monitor the phones of users as young as 13 years old. The app, called Research and sometimes referred to as Project Atlas, gave Facebook complete visibility into .Now, senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts), and Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) want more information from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Google’s senior vice president of platforms, Hiroshi...…Senate’s biggest privacy advocates are sending letters to Facebook, Google, and Apple executives Thursday, following a recent TechCrunch that Facebook used an iOS and Android app to monitor the phones of users as young as 13 years old. The app, called Research and sometimes referred to as Project Atlas, gave Facebook complete visibility into .Now, senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts), and Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) want more information from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Google’s senior vice president of platforms, Hiroshi...WW…

by tech giants to cut back on abhorrent behavior on their platforms, a new survey finds that severe forms of online hate and harassment, including stalking and physical threats, may be on the rise. According to , released Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League, more than one third of Americans reported experiencing some type of severe online hate or harassment in 2018. A found that 18 percent of Americans said they were targeted with severe online harassment in 2017. For young people, the numbers are even worse, with about half of 18- to 29-year-olds saying they experienced some kind of...…by tech giants to cut back on abhorrent behavior on their platforms, a new survey finds that severe forms of online hate and harassment, including stalking and physical threats, may be on the rise. According to , released Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League, more than one third of Americans reported experiencing some type of severe online hate or harassment in 2018. A found that 18 percent of Americans said they were targeted with severe online harassment in 2017. For young people, the numbers are even worse, with about half of 18- to 29-year-olds saying they experienced some kind of...WW…