In her upcoming State of the State address, Gov. Kathy Hochul will propose that the default setting for online platforms should ban viewing or messaging minors.

Lorrie Cranor influenced what you know about digital privacy. Now she's aiming for preschoolers. The Carnegie Mellon University professor helped pioneer an internet misery benchmark in 2008 that tallied the 244 hours a year it would require for an American to read online privacy policies in their entirety.