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British parliamentarians are angry that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has turned down a request to appear from a committee examining who had access to his companies data.

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Facebook violated a consent decree by enabling third parties to access users' information without their permission. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with former FTC official Jessica Rich about the investigation, and other measures the government could take to police how tech giants safeguard users' privacy.

"Donald Trump makes it click in your head that this actually has a much wider impact," former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie said of Trump's election and the misuse of data.

A Japanese company is proposing a venture to create on-demand meteor showers using small spheres dropped from a satellite. Scientists aren't really keen to the idea.

A former Michigan State University medical school dean who supervised notorious sports doctor Larry Nassar is facing criminal charges over allegations that he failed to protect women and girls from Nassar, groped female students and had porn on his office computer.

Conservative Christian colleges are worried that their doctrinal commitments with respect to LGBT issues could run afoul of sex discrimination law under Title IX and jeopardize federal financial aid.

In 2014 the U.S. cited the attacks on Yazidis in Iraq as a reason to join the war against ISIS. But now that ISIS is gone, Yazidis are largely neglected and remain desperate on Mount Sinjar.

Private office phone booths are becoming a thing — especially in a world of open-floor-plan office spaces that are too noisy and don't give coworkers enough privacy.

Uber is selling off its operations in Southeast Asia to a local rival named Grab.

Monday night the Commerce Department announced it would reinstate a citizenship question in the federal census, which will next be taken in 2020.