Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Surveillance capitalism is an assault on human autonomy’

What began as advertising is now a threat to freedom and democracy argues the author and scholar. Time to wake up - and fight for a different digital future

Facebook to be subject to tougher controls after EU court ruling

ECJ says member states can order platform to remove defamatory material globally

Revealed: catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator

Exclusive: Job has left some ‘addicted’ to extreme material and pushed others to far right

Court extends child abuser’s jail sentence for trolling victim

Waseem Khaliq, who also threatened police, has 45 months added to 10-year term

Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple asked to turn over internal documents

House judiciary committee wants records in antitrust inquiry, with Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook named in requests

France to block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency in Europe

Finance minister says governments’ monetary sovereignty could be at risk

Google and Facebook reject plan for Australian code of conduct on fake news

Group representing tech giants including Twitter says ACCC proposal would turn media watchdog into truth police

#FlipGirl car crash video goes viral after clip from ABC show mistaken for real thing

New made-for-smartphone series Content gets a major publicity boost with thousands of shares on social media

Facebook to direct vaccine searches to public health pages

Facebook moves to stem spread of misinformation online about side-effects of immunisations

Been duped on Facebook and Amazon’s platforms? Well, you’re not alone

Allowing third parties access to the online giants is as risky as it is profitable