Sextortion involves scammers convincing teens to send sexually explicit images or videos to them and then threatening to ...

Instagram this week put in place new measures meant to protect minors, introducing “Teen Accounts” that give parents more ...

A report released by the Federal Trade Commission Thursday revealed a widespread practice of user surveillance by social media platforms and streaming services.

But a tragic ending altered their lives. Rhodes was convicted of first-degree murder after investigators alleged he’d killed ...

The 17-year-old suspect's discussions on Instagram helped police tie him to the theft of a vehicle at gunpoint, investigators ...

Spirit Halloween stores have been opening up around North America every autumn since 1983, marking the start of the Halloween ...

The SCOPE Act stands for “Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act” and it’s a broad bill that forces companies like Meta to create parental tools that would let parents limit the ...

Greg McBride, Chief Financial Analyst, Bankrate, chats with John about the Fed cutting interest rates yesterday, why he was encouraged by the policy decision, how the market ...

All teens under age 18 will be automatically transitioned to the new teen accounts and will fall under the new protections. Users age 16 and 17 will have the ability to turn these features off, while ...

FTC Chair Lina Khan says tech giants such as Meta and Google "endanger people's privacy" and "expose them to a host of harms.

There were invoices in Jalyn Nalley's email for the purchase of two hand guns and equipment to convert the guns into ...

YouTube, social media platform X, Snap, Discord and Reddit were also included in the FTC report, though its findings were ...