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 on Saturday vowed to fight Nigerian fines for various consumer data violations, reportedly threatening to cut off Facebook and Instagram in Africa's most populous country.
May 4, 2025
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Internet
Britain's broadcasting regulator announced Thursday that tech firms failing to prevent children from accessing harmful content will face fines or even elimination from the UK market under "transformational" measures launching ...
Apr 24, 2025
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Business
Big Tech companies such as Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft have deeply embedded themselves into every aspect of our lives—our health care, education, and even politics. As these tech giants consistently stay ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Business
Instagram is beginning to test the use of artificial intelligence to determine if kids are lying about their ages on the app, parent company Meta Platforms said on Monday.
Apr 21, 2025
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Internet
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, passed in 1996 as part of the Telecommunications Act, has become a political lightning rod in recent years. The law shields online platforms from liability for user-generated ...
Apr 9, 2025
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Internet
Instagram users under 16 won't be able to livestream or unblur nudity in direct messages they've received without parental approval, owner Meta Platforms said Tuesday as it widened its safety measures for teenagers.
Apr 8, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Spain's leftist government unveiled a draft bill Tuesday that would criminalize the use of artificial intelligence to generate sexually explicit video images of a person's face or body without their consent.
Mar 25, 2025
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Business
Social media platforms tend not to be that bothered by national boundaries.
Mar 24, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Social media is a complex environment that presents both opportunities and threats for adolescents, with self-expression and emotional support on the one hand and body-shaming, cyberbullying and addictive behaviors on the ...
Mar 19, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Some "unofficial" parental control apps have excessive access to personal data and hide their presence, raising concerns about their potential for unethical surveillance as well as domestic abuse, according to new research ...
Mar 13, 2025
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