Social media firms need to use better age verification technologies to keep children off their platforms, the U.K.'s ...

Privacy and encryption are central themes in legal proceedings involving child safety against Meta and Apple this week.

New age-verification laws and tools are designed for child safety on social media and the internet, but adults are in the ...

Twelve bipartisan "child online safety" bills now moving through the House would require age verification for internet access - effectively ending online anonymity in the United States. The flagship ...

By Katie Paul, Supantha Mukherjee and Byron Kaye NEW YORK/STOCKHOLM/SYDNEY, March 9 (Reuters) - For years, tech companies ...

With children out of school and sometimes left home alone, a child safety expert said summertime is a time of year when predators are working hard to exploit young people online. Callahan Walsh, a ...

Blaming chatbots, they are joining an earlier push for better protections by parents who say social media contributed to their children’s deaths.

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google are launching a nonprofit organization called ROOST, or Robust Open Online Safety Tools, which hopes "to build scalable, interoperable safety infrastructure suited ...

Roblox is seeking to dismiss the Louisiana AG’s lawsuit over accusations that it fails to protect children from predators on its site.

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (WCSC) - Child passenger safety advocates are pushing for South Carolina to toughen up their laws after one too many accidents have happened in the state. Moncks Corner Police said ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - On May 18, 2024, the unthinkable happened to Brandon Lynch’s family. “He was at a family pool and he was swimming with his cousins, went back inside and he snuck back out ...

Safe Kids San Angelo is hosting a free Child Safety Seat Checkup on March 12th at the Texas Department of Transportation office, where certified technicians will provide assistance with selecting and ...