Facebook and Twitter have said that they took too long to tackle foreign campaigns to meddle in US elections. Responding to lawmakers, Facebook’s chief operating officer...
Facebook needs to narrow its “sweeping” definition of terrorism to stop governments arbitrarily blocking legitimate opposition groups and dissenting voices, a U.N. Human Rights Council independent...
President Donald Trump has accused Google of rigging the search results for the phrase “Trump news”. In a tweet, he accused the technology giant of prioritising...
Chinese smartphone maker Huawei says the Australian government has banned it from providing 5G technology for the country’s wireless networks. It said fellow communications firm ZTE...
The latest development in textiles and fibers is a kind of soft hardware that you can wear: cloth that has electronic devices built right into it....
The CEO of Twitter says it will not ban InfoWars or its founder Alex Jones because their accounts do not violate the social media platform’s rules....
Facebook says it has removed 32 accounts and pages believed to have been set up to influence the mid-term US elections in November. It said it...
The UK faces a “democratic crisis” due to the spread of “pernicious views” and the manipulation of personal data, a parliamentary committee is set to warn....
Facial recognition technology does not yet have “the diversity it needs” and has “inherent biases”, a top Google executive has warned. The remarks, from the firm’s...
A student has spent five months in an Indian jail over a WhatsApp message he says he did not send. Local reports say the 21-year-old man...
India’s government is holding up Facebook’s plans for a nationwide launch of its WhatsApp payments service over concerns about how users’ data will be stored and...