Publishers of 125 newspapers in 11 states filed or announced lawsuits against Google and Facebook claiming the tech giants have unlawfully monopolized the digital advertising market and engaged in an...

New EU laws could set an example to Washington in reining in social media platforms, AI and crypto

Authoritarian Tech is a weekly newsletter tracking how people in power are abusing technology and what it means for the rest of us. Also in this edition: Uganda taxes Big Tech and Lithuania goes...

New court documents revealed the existence of a program that was designed to "intercept and decrypt" user analytics data from other apps.

Need a quick refresher on the California Privacy Rights Act? Read on for info on the Global Privacy Control, new types of protected data and enforcement.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing Facebook of putting profits over people’s safety during Canada’s wildfire emergencies.

As big tech celebrates AI, it’s time to demand accountability for the harms tech has caused before they wreak further havoc

Researchers have already developed a bot that could help tell the difference between synthetic and human-generated text

In response to the US Copyright Office request for comments, DCN submitted these comments regarding the legal and public policy concerns associated with

The PM made his remarks at a Friday news conference in Toronto, as the Commons heritage committee was preparing to summon Google executives to explain their actions

The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act would allow news publishers to work together to establish distribution and payment deals.

It adds to an already-extensive list of lawsuits against the company for alleged anti-competitive behavior.

Justices hear arguments on law that shields tech platforms from liability for content published on their sites

Tracking and profiling remain standard practices and big business for ad-tech firms in digital advertising, though publishers don’t see much of the money.

This is the first time that a film solely directed by a woman has ever topped $1 billion in global box office sales.

Twenty years ago, search engines put in motion a revolution in how we access and consume information. In the span of two decades, billions of people

The verdict was a rare legal victory for Ms. Ressa, founder of the news site Rappler, who has been under pressure from the Philippine authorities for years.

Guardian News & Media is pleased to announce the launch of Guardian Voice Lab - an in-house team dedicated to experimenting with storytelling and delivering journalism through smart speakers and...

The search giant has always relied on Section 230’s liability shield. Its latest moves could change that.

The effort, spearheaded by the MacArthur Foundation, will give grants to support newsrooms and start-ups as concern grows over the rapid disappearance of local news outlets.

Culture secretary says businesses will no longer “be shackled by lots of unnecessary red tape.”

Whether it’s hurtling singles to record breaking runs on the charts, or reminding you about your own mortality, music video mashup and sharing app TikTok is now an ingrained part of the zeitgeist....

A group representing publishers such as News Corp and National Public Radio wrote to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to back two bills targeting Big Tech, including one that...

The year 1948 saw a monumental Supreme Court decision that forever altered the business of moviemaking – and of moviegoing. Nearly 75 years later, as the

Netflix Inc shareholders on Thursday withheld their support for the company's executive pay package, in a non-binding vote that followed a call by striking Hollywood writers to reject the proposed...

Publisher is latest news organisation to block the artificial intelligence company from harvesting content to create its tools

The year 1948 saw a monumental Supreme Court decision that forever altered the business of moviemaking – and of moviegoing. Nearly 75 years later, as the

It’s heartening to see that European lawmakers are preparing to vote on beefed-up restrictions on tracking ads. In fact I wish they were willing to go even further and consider an outright ban -...

Tech antitrust enforcers are in their litigation era.

Researchers used ChatGPT to produce clean, convincing text that repeated conspiracy theories and misleading narratives.

Traditional media groups face a challenge to justify value amid competition from rival sources for attention

Conde Nast warns "many" media companies could go out of business in the time litigation against generative AI companies would take.