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

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

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 ...

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, ...

Senate Bill 1409, the Kids Online Safety Act, includes language that says it would not require social media platforms, applications and websites to verify users’ ages or collect more age data than ...

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 ...

The Kids Online Safety Act was supposed to fix (or break) the internet. Now, after nearly three years of rewrites, it’s got days left to pass. is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Jan. 25, 2011, protests erupted across Egypt against the regime of Hosni Mubarak. As an estimated 2 million people protested at Tahrir Square in Cairo, the government tried to control the narrative ...