WASHINGTON — Under pressure to act on unpopular data centers, the House overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation Wednesday aimed at shielding consumers from higher energy costs when new data ...

Washington — The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation aimed at protecting Americans from shouldering the potential costs of data centers on their electricity bills. The bipartisan ...

House lawmakers on Wednesday easily passed the first major legislative action to address the costs of the AI boom, a bill intended to shield Americans from potential energy costs associated with data ...

Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission issued an unprecedented penalty against General Motors: a five-year ban on selling customer data to consumer reporting agencies and third-party data ...

In August 2026, Meta agreed to one of the largest consumer protection settlements in American history. The settlement resolves claims from 47 states alleging that Meta intentionally designed its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lawmakers are calling for the Trump administration to suspend a new surveillance program it quietly launched to collect the data ...

Following online backlash over its WiFi Motion feature, the company says it keeps a week of your motion history — and that it could be subpoenaed. Following online backlash over its WiFi Motion ...

China is exporting more than A.I. models. It wants its data to influence the world’s chatbots, raising fears that Beijing’s narratives will spread with the technology. By David Pierson and Berry Wang ...

Hackers have allegedly posted the personal data of 15 million Kazakhstani citizens for sale on the dark web. If confirmed, this would mark the second major breach of Kazakhstani citizen data in a ...

Data centers are increasingly popping up next to American homes, and they're changing neighborhoods in the process. The number of large data centers over 50 megawatts has increased sevenfold from 2018 ...

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When you think about smart home tech that collects your data, your mind probably immediately goes to your computer, phone, TV, even smart speakers. But did you know that most smart appliances collect ...