The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has gone after Facebook, looking to prevent parent company Meta from profiting off the data of children who use the social media site. On Wednesday, May 3, the FTC proposed a blanket ban in which Meta “would be prohibited from profiting from data it collects, including through its virtual reality…

Calls for banning TikTok seem to be one of few items Democrats and Republicans can agree on these days. And now comes the RESTRICT Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation introduced by Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) that’s making its way through Congress. Also known as the TikTok ban, the Act gives power to the U.S.…

Florida passes a six-week abortion ban, and lawmakers in one state are getting closer to outright banning the app TikTok. These stories and more highlight the daily rundown for Friday, April 14, 2023.  Florida passes 6-week abortion ban Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, R, signed “The Heartbeat Protection Act” into law after the state House took…

When TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before Congress in March, he claimed the platform — owned by Chinese technology company ByteDance — doesn’t share user data with the Chinese government. Lawmakers weren’t buying it and neither have dozens of countries around the world. Congress, the U.S. military and more than half of U.S. states…

As U.S. lawmakers continue to scrutinize the popular social media app TikTok, and mulls over a potential ban on the app in the country, other Chinese-linked apps are rising in popularity among American users. Despite concerns over data privacy, four of the top 10 most downloaded apps across the App Store and Google Play store…

President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes in northern Syria after an American contractor was killed in a drone attack; the U.S. and Canada reached a border deal; and Starbucks’ CEO will work the counter. These stories and more highlight your daily rundown for Friday, March 24, 2023.  American killed in Syria drone strike An Iranian suicide…

Artificial intelligence is already the next big thing, from OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Bard AI. But as generative AI platforms increasingly get in the hands of everyday people, could the technology end up on the wrong side of a lawsuit? Here is the legal action threatening AI in this week’s Five For Friday. #5: Defamation…