As everyone predicted, the UK's dumb age verification laws are a total farce. Designed in attempts to "protect children," the UK's now notorious age verification laws are supposedly designed to ...

Australia isn’t banning Discord yet, but future updates to its social media law could change that for under-16s as the government reviews more platforms.

The lawsuit accuses the companies of putting profit above protecting the millions of children who use the platforms from pedophiles and others despite the companies marketing their platforms as safe.

Age verification laws are, in some ways, part of a years-long reckoning over child safety online, as tech companies have shown themselves unable to prevent serious harms to their most vulnerable users ...

Children Harmed by AI Technology (CHAT) Act from proposal into law seems likely to carry on apace. The bill — which would, under the banner of protecting children, require a staggeringly broad array ...

Australia is joining a wave of governments around the globe in regulating how kids spend their time online. On December 10th, ...

The 2023 law requires social media companies to obtain consent from parents of children under the age of 16 before those ...

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Last Thursday morning I woke up to find I no longer had access to my messages on social network Bluesky. "You must complete age assurance in order to access this screen," a pop-up notification told me ...

A federal judge has halted enforcement of a Louisiana law that sought to require social media companies to verify users’ ages ...

The American technology company Meta plans to introduce a new age verification system called AgeKey in many countries in 2026, Azernews reports.