Technology

With over 12 million new users since the beginning of the year, TikTok has recorded 2 billion downloads since its creation back in 2014.

People have always come to Facebook to connect with friends around day-to-day life, and celebrate important moments, like birthdays. As such, on May 9, Facebook launched Birthday Stories globally.

Occasionally making yourself inaccessible is essential to boosting focus. A survey found that always being reachable – checking emails during off days, scrolling through social media, responding to texts 24/7 – is associated with higher stress levels. This is known as “continuous partial attention,” a state of alertness largely driven by FOMO.

Parents across America continue to worry about the apps their children and teens download. Here are two apps that can give parents peace of mind.

As data breaches become more frequent and we learn more about the Cambridge Analytica leak, it’s clear that protecting users’ online information is a time-sensitive challenge that must be addressed quickly.

The past several weeks have made clear that people want more information about how Facebook works and the controls they have over their information. And today at F8, we’re sharing some of the first steps we’re taking to better protect people’s privacy.

While tech giants like Facebook, Twitter and Google offer ever-expanding portfolios of no-cost services, consumers are paying with increasingly detailed levels of personal data. Often, consumers are not fully aware just how much of their information is collected and how it is being used.

When I became the Chairman of House Energy and Commerce Committee, I made it clear that our top priority as a committee is to put consumers first.

For better or worse, social media platforms like Facebook connect people and spread information faster than ever. In the process, they collect huge amounts of personal data.

Data privacy concerns highlight growing challenges related to technology’s increasing influence in our lives. But this rapidly growing sector faces a big threat from Washington’s practice of over-regulating.

The collection of personal information has become broader and more threatening than anyone could have imagined. Our research finds traditional approaches to safeguarding privacy are stretched to the limit as thousands of data points are collected about us every day and maintained indefinitely by a host of technology platforms.

A new European privacy law will soon give consumers more control over their data. Is it time for Congress to do the same?

Big tech is a blessing — a major success story of the American economy. Many tech giants give away their products to consumers for free. Amazon might be pushing down the rate of inflation for the entire economy.

Last month, Facebook’s CEO testified before Congress, surfacing the need for comprehensive privacy legislation. U.S. privacy regulations have stalled under the Trump administration, whose leadership has already rescinded many of the Obama-era rules that were crafted to respond to massive data breaches.

A new, exclusive poll for Axios by SurveyMonkey found that Facebook’s favorability has plunged in the last five months. In the Axios/SurveyMonkey poll comparing views in October with last week, Facebook’s already low net favorability dropped twice as much as the other tech giants.

Daily news about data breaches, ransomware and phishing attacks are leaving us unsure about our engagements online. These developments highlight that existing approaches to cybersecurity are insufficient in the connected economy.

For nearly a decade, experts have highlighted the need for an international Geneva Conventions for cyberspace. With recent breaches, it has become clear that the problem is urgent and growing.

The recent privacy scandal surrounding Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data during the 2016 election highlights a major shortcoming in U.S. privacy law.

Unlike other developed countries, the U.S. lacks comprehensive privacy regulation, except for the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). COPPA governs data collection from children under 13.

Cybersecurity is front and center for many Americans, from frequent data breaches compromising our personal information to foreign interference in our elections.

The string of highly visible breaches over the past several years has shed an immense spotlight on the seriousness of the cybersecurity challenges we face.

Our nation’s electric, banking and telecommunications sectors are under threat from Russia, China and other adversaries. The Federal government can’t share with these industries the intelligence it has collected on these threats – it’s classified.

While the internet’s borderless nature benefits the global economy and advances technological innovation, it has also led to the wide spread of cyber threats.

In today’s business world, IT has become more ubiquitous than ever; much sensitive data is online.

Around the holidays, “cyber” is often associated with shopping. Seventy-eight million Americans were expected to make online purchases Cyber Monday. While you’re filling your cart, businesses are guarding against cyberattacks.

They may not realize it, but campaigns are on the front lines of a 21st century cyber battle. Malicious actors are stepping up attacks to undermine our democracy.

Much effort has been expended on developing international cybersecurity norms that provide guardrails for responsible state behavior — indicating what actors should and shouldn’t do in cyberspace.

The internet was commercialized 27 years ago; a symbol that the end of the cold war meant universal adoption of liberal democracy. That was utopian.

Americans have the right to choose their elected government free from foreign interference.

My clients frequently ask how best to prepare for a breach. They know that, despite reasonable efforts, it is a matter of “when,” not “if,” such an event occurs.