Agents of disinformation use anonymous online spaces to seed rumors and fabricated content, hoping to eventually reach professional news outlets. How can journalists protect themselves from being manipulated?

An explosive new story unveils just how much access to user data Facebook offered other tech firms.

An Amazon user in Germany recently requested data about his personal activities and inadvertently gained access to 1,700 audio recordings of someone he didn’t know.

Journalists paid to help fix Facebook’s fake news problem say they have lost trust in the platform.

The tech giant says it won't offer general-purpose facial recognition APIs before working through important technology and policy questions.

Pop star’s reported use of software to root out stalkers may be well meant, but it fuels a disturbing trend, experts say.

Facebook doesn’t want to tell us how its systems work. Amazon doesn’t want to tell us how its systems work. These companies are data mining us, sometimes in concert, to make uncomfortably accurate connections but also erroneous assumptions.

Facebook troubles and the resultant chaos have now become so frequent that it won’t be wrong to consider them a routine.

More than 1,400 Google staff, many journalists, and human rights organizations are calling on Google to halt its controversial project called Dragonfly.

Users have been sharing their innocuous posts that have been deemed #TooSexyForTumblr.

The streamer’s Melissa Cobb and Irish director Nora Twomey on reaching younger viewers.

French NGO accuses Facebook of violating users’ privacy.

Now available for iOS and Android: A new app that teaches children how to identify landmines and other unexploded devices, offered for the first time in the Vietnamese language.

Students have no way to escape the high level of surveillance being conducted over everything they do in the classroom.

Instagram’s parent company faces international scrutiny while the photo app retains its charming reputation.

Another week, another set of reminders that, while Facebook likes to paint itself as an “optimistic” company that’s simply out to help users and connect the world, the reality is very different.

More than 50 disclosures of private communication data were provided every day, on average, to gardaí and agencies over the last five years, figures show.

We’re distracted like never before — and our phones are probably the biggest culprit. But there is a way you can live with one and still get things done. Productivity expert Chris Bailey shares what worked for him.

Net Results: The sale of DNA databases for private research is of huge ethical concern.

The application, blamed for all kinds of mayhem on the subcontinent, has proved a boon for farmers, home cooks and chefs who once lacked a way to share.