New legislation in Australia makes it illegal for those under 16 to have a social media account. To avoid financial penalties, social media companies have scrambled to remove accounts they believe ...

Internet Privacy: Many people use social media to conceal their identities. But a new study warns that it may now be easier ...

In the world of Web3, where users are expected to manage multiple wallets, fragmented identities, and a growing list of blockchain-based tools, one question remains unanswered: Who really owns your ...

If I were an academic or research psychologist, and not just an observational one in private practice, I would take a fresh look at identity formation in adolescence. Why? Because I believe how it is ...

In everyday life, we rely on government-issued documents to establish our identity. But on the web, we hand that power over to private, for-profit corporations that don't even think of us as customers ...

Salman Rushdie is having problems getting people to believe that his Internet self is the same as his human self. When Rushdie joined Twitter a few months ago, the Twitteverse questioned the man ...

Internet Privacy: Many people use social media while concealing their identities. But a new study warns that AI could make it easier to uncover the true identities of anonymous users. (Is your ...