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
Australia's online watchdog accused tech giants including Apple and Google on Wednesday of "turning a blind eye" to child sex abuse material shared on their platforms.
Aug 6, 2025
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Internet
Australia will use landmark social media laws to ban children under 16 from video-streaming site YouTube, a top minister said Wednesday stressing the need to shield them from "predatory algorithms."
Jul 30, 2025
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Internet
New UK age verification measures to prevent children accessing harmful online content came into force on Friday, with campaigners hailing them a "milestone" in their years-long battle for stronger regulations.
Jul 25, 2025
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Internet
Instagram parent company Meta has introduced new safety features aimed at protecting teens who use its platforms, including information about accounts that message them and an option to block and report accounts with one ...
Jul 24, 2025
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Internet
Big tech platforms often present content moderation as a seamless, tech‑driven system. But human labor, often outsourced to countries such as India and the Philippines, plays a pivotal role in making judgments that involve ...
Jul 23, 2025
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Internet
Five EU countries including France will test an app aimed at preventing children from accessing harmful content online by checking users' ages, the European Commission said Monday.
Jul 14, 2025
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Security
Parenting in the digital age can be stressful and demands a lot from parents.
Jul 7, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Social platforms are constantly trying to strike a balance when it comes to managing bad behavior. How do you crack down on harassment and cyberbullying without slipping into censorship that drives people off your platform?
Jul 3, 2025
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Internet
By the end of this year, the experience of using search engines in Australia won't be as simple as it has always been.
Jul 3, 2025
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Internet
Australia's world-leading ban on under-16s joining social media sites cleared a big hurdle Friday as a trial found digital age checks can work "robustly and effectively."
Jun 20, 2025
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