The Parents Over Platforms Act aims to protect kids from high-risk apps without overregulating harmless ones while App Store ...

A universal feature of traveling Europe as a Hackaday scribe is that when you sit in a hackerspace in another country and proclaim how nice a place it all is, the denizens will respond pessimistically ...

The Senate voted to pass two bills aimed at boosting safety and privacy for kids online in a broad bipartisan vote Tuesday after months of mounting pressure from ...

In our society, age restrictions are a cornerstone for protecting the physical and mental safety of our children. While it's simple to prevent a child from working before age 14 or from getting behind ...

Parents whose children have been seriously harmed or lost their lives due to social media have been let down by a key House panel’s advancement of a watered-down version of the Kids Online Safety Act, ...

Not all screen time is created equal, and how kids spend it, whether creatively or passively, can make all the difference. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, in 2022, 21.6% of ...

The S.W.A.T. (Safety While Accessing Technology) bill was passed during the 2024 legislative session. It required the state ...

Among other proposed measures, KOSA’s duty of care would require social media platforms to design their products and services to prevent and mitigate certain harms to minors, such as mental health ...

The Kids Online Safety Act was supposed to fix (or break) the internet. Now, after nearly three years of rewrites, it’s got days left to pass. is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the ...

A mother who is campaigning for improvements to children’s online safety following the death of her teenage son has spoken of ...

The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) has described the enforcement of the Online Safety Act 2025 (ONSA) as a key measure to ...