The US Senate passed COPPA 2.0 again, which would create new protections for young users online; the bill now heads to the House, where it has struggled to pass
The measure for protecting children and teens' personal data could once more fail in the House. — Today the US Senate unanimously …
TikTok says it won't add E2EE to DMs because it would prevent police and its safety teams from reading messages when needed and it wants to protect young users
TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) - the controversial privacy feature used by nearly all its rivals - arguing it makes users less safe.
Meta, TikTok, and Snap agree to undergo independent assessments to rate how effectively they protect teen users based on ~24 standards developed by experts
A system of two dozen standards was developed by mental health experts to assess how well social media platforms protect young users.
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like addictive feeds to show warning labels about mental health impacts on young users
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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like addictive feeds to show warning labels about mental health impacts on young users
The warnings will appear when users interact with a feature the state deems addictive. — The State of New York …
Internal documents show Instagram's aggressive campaign to win back teens, including by boosting teen-friendly influencers, adjusting its algorithm, and more
The company pursued a yearslong strategy to win teens back even after critics said it wasn't safe, records show. X: @robtornoe . Bluesky: @justinhendrix and @raaleh . Mastodon: @cbarbermd@med-mastodon...
A US federal judge grants a temporary injunction blocking a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users' ages from taking effect on January 1
Document #65 Ryan Mac / New York Times : Judge Blocks Texas Age-Verification Law for App Stores Anthony Kimery / Biometric Update : Judge blocks Texas app store age verification law as unconstitutiona...
Character.ai plans to limit under-18s to two hours of conversations per day, gradually reducing the time limit before banning them completely from November 25
Move comes following growing public and regulatory scrutiny over safety of the technology for young users
Texas enacts an online child safety bill requiring app stores to verify users' ages and secure parental approval before minors can get most apps or make IAPs
If this goes anything like the porn ban, Apple and Google are just gonna pull out of the Texas market. Hey Texans, hope you either have a VPN or you're hoarding every app you could possibly want. X: ...
Google plans to roll out Gemini next week for children under 13 whose parents use Family Link and says it will not use the under-13 users' data to train its AI
This is what “growth at any cost” looks like: — www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/t... [embedded post] Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix : “Google plans to roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbo...