Online child safety regulation addresses legal, technical, and policy frameworks designed to protect minors on digital platforms, particularly social media and search services. Central themes include statutory minimum ages for account creation, mandatory age verification and age assurance technologies, and safety-by-design obligations such as teen defaults and PG-13 content gating. The field also examines platform liability for addictive design and youth mental health harms, constitutional and human-rights challenges to age-gating laws, and the effectiveness of national and regional regulatory regimes in reducing online risks to children.
Business
Meta and its social media platforms Facebook and Instagram are facing a class-action lawsuit in Australia over allegations addictive design features are harming children and teenagers.
Oct 22, 2026
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Internet
People's online behavior has changed in response to legislation to prevent children from viewing harmful content—raising possible privacy and security risks, research suggests.
Oct 16, 2026
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Internet
New research has found that 88% of parents support Australia's under-16 social media ban, despite the majority using social media every day themselves.
Oct 8, 2026
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Internet
Years after the risks of social media for kids first became apparent, U.S. states this summer reached an accord hailed as a turning point for child safety. Meanwhile, a new generation of children has begun engaging with an ...
Oct 5, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Online privacy used to mean being careful about what you shared. You also had some control over what others shared about you because much of that info was public. You could ask a friend to take down that unflattering photo ...
Oct 2, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
Apple's latest mobile operating system update, iOS 27, rolled out last week, headlined by a more advanced version of its Siri assistant. But it also comes with a slew of other useful but less well known features for iPhone ...
Sep 24, 2026
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Internet
The EU laid out plans Thursday for strict age limits for children to access social media, games and AI assistants—and to force companies to make platforms safe before minors use them.
Sep 17, 2026
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Internet
The European Union will ban children under 13 from social media and allow only limited, supervised access until age 15 under plans unveiled Wednesday by EU chief Ursula von der Leyen.
Sep 16, 2026
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Internet
The European Union is set to propose curbing access to social media, video-sharing platforms, chatbots and online games for children younger than 15, according to a draft legal document seen by AFP.
Sep 15, 2026
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Internet
Social media algorithms are a powerful feature of online life, serving up content to users based on their browsing habits or personal data.
Sep 9, 2026
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