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"Delaying children’s access to social media accounts gives them valuable time to learn and grow, free of the powerful, unseen ...

Young teenagers in Australia have been barred from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok in one of the toughest crackdowns on digital platforms in the democratic world.

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Roblox is making a massive change that every parent and grandparent needs to know about. In an effort to improve child safety, the platform is introducing a mandatory "video selfie" verification ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...

Age-verification laws are sweeping the world. These mandates typically require websites that host explicit content — and some that don't — to obtain personal data from visitors to ensure they're over ...

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Michigan lawmakers are considering legislation that would require social media companies to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent before minors can create accounts.

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Pornography sites that wish to operate in Missouri must now verify that users are adults before granting access to explicit content, under a new rule that went into effect Monday. The change caused ...

Anapol Weiss shares its perspective on Roblox's new AI age-verification measures, noting the update is a limited step within a broader need for comprehensive child-safety reforms. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1 ...

Update (Dec. 2, 16:20 UTC): This article has been updated to clarify that x402 was initially incubated by Coinbase and is not owned by the exchange. Concordium’s identity and age-verification system ...