Last year, federal lawmakers came closer than ever to passing sweeping online privacy legislation when a House committee advanced a federal privacy bill that would have curbed online data collection.

I was on a call with my son. Never searched a thing. By morning, my Feed was full of ads for exactly what we discussed.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, collects user activity data not only on its own platforms but also from third-party apps and websites. While this data is primarily used for advertising and ...