This senator wants an online privacy law. She’s slowed efforts for years.

Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell is closing in on a historic online privacy law, but many aides say she’s been one of its biggest obstacles for years. Read More

Key lawmakers float new legislation that would make privacy a consumer right

The sweeping proposal announced Sunday evening would define privacy as a consumer right and create new rules for companies that collect and use ... Read More

Technology News

ABC News' Andrea Fujii explains ... The Federal Trade Commission has voted to restore rules to prevent broadband internet providers such as Comcast and AT&T from favoring some sites and apps ... Read More

Privacy is a right!

Here's how we are working for you: Advocating for laws that ensure that companies use your data only for the things that you have agreed to let them do. Advocating for laws that ensure that ... Read More

Editorial: Adopt federal rules on data privacy and rights

“A federal data privacy law must do two things: It must make privacy a consumer right ... privacy act is secured, users of social network platforms and other internet services still will ... Read More

Google agrees to destroy browsing data to settle consumer privacy lawsuit

Google settles lawsuit over tracking internet use by destroying data records. Terms filed in California court, valued at $5-7.8 billion. Users can sue individually. Lawsuit involves private ... Read More

White House makes last-ditch push for internet subsidy program

helps users save over $500 million per month on their internet bills. , opens new tab, have all called for Congress to extend the program. Bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Peter Welch ... Read More

Political News

A rush transcript of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" airing on Sunday, April 28, 2024 on ABC News is below ... WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS starts right now. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GEORGE ... Read More

Google agrees to wipe browsing data to put consumer privacy lawsuit to rest

Google will destroy a large cache of consumer data to settle a lawsuit that claimed the Chrome web search engine was tracking incognito users. The settlement, which is valued between $5 billion ... Read More

Startups News

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Money: Take-home pay calculator - find out how much extra you're getting this month with National Insurance cut

Use our calculator to find out how much, enjoy our weekend reads and leave a comment below, and we'll be back with all the latest personal finance and consumer news on Monday. Read More