NATASHA SINGER

Children’s privacy and health experts pressed regulators to prohibit video games and social networks from using attention-hacking techniques on youngsters.

In this polarized climate, hundreds of Americans told us they agree on one thing: Campaigns must stop spamming voters’ phones with unwanted political texts.

Candidates and advocacy groups are inundating voters’ phones with political text messages. Tell us about your experiences.

To help campaigns target ads, voter-profiling firms score millions of Americans on issues like guns, vaccines and QAnon.

British regulars have sent a warning notice to the company, the first major case under new rules in Britain that protect minors online.

A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties.

The targeted political ads could spread some of the same voter-influence techniques that proliferated on Facebook to an even less regulated medium.

Federal regulators said the sale of geolocation information on tens of millions of smartphones could expose people’s visits to private places.

At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down.

Carriers were dealing with a combination of staff shortages and passenger volume that approached or in some cases exceeded prepandemic levels.