Gen Z held an anti-social media event. Here's how they heard about it.

Led by Gen Z, Delete Day encouraged attendees to get rid of social media apps on their smartphones.

Meta's Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are amongst the worst offenders when it comes to social media privacy - here's what you need to know

Discord takes top spot in social media privacy report, while Meta platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, land at the ...

Social media companies face another lawsuit over effect on youth mental health

Congress has been unable to pass comprehensive regulation to rein in Big Tech’s influence on society and children despite ...

Social media surveillance is ubiquitous, according to research literature review

A review in the International Journal of Smart Technology and Learning discusses the research literature on social media ...
ConsumerAffairs

California enacts new consumer privacy act aimed at social media companies

New California law requires social media companies to make it easy for users to cancel their accounts and remove all data. It ...

‘No playbook’: eSafety boss backs social media ban despite expert warnings

The commissioner insists age verification can work, despite expert warnings of deep flaws with just over two months until the ...

Final rules for social media ban revealed, with no legally enforceable effectiveness standard

While substantial fines would apply to social media platforms that make no effort to ban under-16s, they would not need to ...
Fast Company

How your data is collected and what you can do about it

You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You close that pesky ad that opens first and check the forecast. You like your weather app, which shows hourly weather forecasts ...
Crikey

Excessive data collection for teen social media ban is illegal, warns privacy commissioner

Copies of passports, driver's licenses, facial scans and other data collected to prove a user’s age must be immediately ...