Christmas morning often brings excitement, new gadgets and more screen time for kids. But child advocacy experts say as more ...

A universal feature of traveling Europe as a Hackaday scribe is that when you sit in a hackerspace in another country and proclaim how nice a place it all is, the denizens will respond pessimistically ...

In our society, age restrictions are a cornerstone for protecting the physical and mental safety of our children. While it's simple to prevent a child from working before age 14 or from getting behind ...

New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting children from harmful content ...

The revamped Kids’ Online Safety Act draft leaves out a duty of care mandate for platforms and applies to a narrower list of possible harms.

A nonprofit organization that reports on student privacy and online safety concerns has launched a safety label system for mobile applications frequently used in K-12 schools. The same query function ...

Parents whose children have been seriously harmed or lost their lives due to social media have been let down by a key House panel’s advancement of a watered-down version of the Kids Online Safety Act, ...

Among other proposed measures, KOSA’s duty of care would require social media platforms to design their products and services to prevent and mitigate certain harms to minors, such as mental health ...

Not all screen time is created equal, and how kids spend it, whether creatively or passively, can make all the difference. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, in 2022, 21.6% of ...

As his family hunkers down at home during the coronavirus pandemic, Tony Costa is worried about what his two sons, 9 and 12, are doing online while surfing the web for schoolwork or playing video ...

The Online Safety Bill has now become the Online Safety Act, after receiving Royal Assent on Thursday (26 October). Sharing the news, the government said it will make "the UK the safest place in the ...