UK privacy watchdog fines Reddit $20 million over children's data failuresBritain’s privacy watchdog has fined Reddit $19.52 million for failures linked to children’s privacy. The Information Commissioner's Office...
24 Feb, 2026, 05.15 PM IST
Asked to use personal laptop at work, new hire feels uneasy - here's what people advised him to doReddit advice on using personal laptop at work: A Reddit user's post about being asked to use a personal laptop for a new job sparked wides...
11 Feb, 2026, 12.33 AM IST
Employee told to share live location by boss over sick leave request. Reddit debates office rights vs micromanagementA Reddit post has sparked online debate after an employee claimed their manager asked for live location access to approve sick leave for a ...
05 Jan, 2026, 11.09 PM IST
Reddit challenges Australia's world-first law banning children under 16 from social mediaCalifornia-based Reddit Inc.'s suit filed in the High Court follows a case filed last month by Sydney-based rights group Digital Freedom Pr...
12 Dec, 2025, 07.15 AM IST
Reddit locks out Wayback machine to stop AI from scraping old postsReddit has restricted the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from extensively capturing its content due to concerns over unauthorized AI da...
12 Aug, 2025, 01.57 AM IST
Reddit users' comments were used to train AI Chatbot, social media platforms sues artificial intelligence companyReddit has previously entered licensing agreements with Google, OpenAI and other companies that are paying to be able to train their AI sys...
05 Jun, 2025, 03.23 AM IST
UK probes TikTok, Reddit over children's dataThe UK's data protection watchdog on Monday announced investigations into three social media networks, including TikTok and Reddit, over th...
03 Mar, 2025, 05.28 PM IST
UK launches investigation into TikTok, Reddit over children's personal data practicesThe watchdog said it is probing how ByteDance's short-form video-sharing platform TikTok uses 13-17-year-olds' personal information to sugg...
03 Mar, 2025, 10.26 AM IST
Texas probes tech platforms over safety and privacy of minorsTech platforms have come under increasing scrutiny over their impact on children. Top U.S. social media platforms made an estimated $11 bil...
13 Dec, 2024, 08.18 AM IST
Social media users lack control over data used by AI, US FTC saysYouTube, social media platform X, Snap, Discord and Reddit were also included in the FTC report, though its findings were anonymised and di...
19 Sep, 2024, 07.41 PM IST
Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concernsIndonesia has banned DuckDuckGo, a search engine known for its privacy features, over concerns about pornography and online gambling conten...
02 Aug, 2024, 09.59 AM IST
AI is learning from what you said on Reddit, Stack Overflow or Facebook. Are you ok with that?Some longtime users have attempted to erase their previous contributions or transform them into nonsense, but their efforts have not yielde...
02 Jul, 2024, 08.52 PM IST
Google training Bard with scraped web data? Here’s everything you may want to knowGoogle has acknowledged training its AI systems using publicly available web data, prompting concerns over privacy, copyright infringement ...
06 Jul, 2023, 02.42 AM IST
DuckDuckGo Browser presents a new feature blocking the “Sign in with Google” pop up. Read moreDuckDuckGo surprises users with the latest feature that will block the “Sign in with Google” pop-up. The new addition will relieve users fr...
26 Dec, 2022, 01.17 PM IST
Australia plans to force parental consent for minors on social mediaSocial media companies, which include anonymous forums like Reddit and smartphone dating apps like Bumble, would also be required to take a...
25 Oct, 2021, 10.14 AM IST
Agency homing in on social media companies' data collectionThe Federal Trade Commission's action announced Monday goes to the heart of the tech industry's lucrative business model: harvesting data f...
15 Dec, 2020, 10.23 AM IST
Shaken by privacy issues? Giri Sreenivas’ startup is selling book-size personal serversPrivacy Labs Inc., a startup based near Microsoft headquarters just outside Seattle, wants to upend all this in the name of digital securit...
18 Oct, 2018, 05.18 PM IST