Child Online Safety

For years, parents have largely decided when children are ready to use social media. That responsibility is now increasingly being…

United States: TikTok has agreed to pay $400 million to the US government to settle a lawsuit alleging that the…

Oakland, California: Meta has come under its biggest legal challenge yet over allegations that it deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram…

Sydney: Meta has removed more than 750,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts it suspected were being operated by Australians under the…

London: Children in the UK are increasingly reporting explicit deepfake images created using artificial intelligence, prompting renewed warnings about the…

Sydney: More than 8 in 10 Australian teenagers continued using social media three months after the country’s landmark ban on…

Canberra: Australia is set to introduce new legislation aimed at strengthening its ban on social media use by children under…

London: Online safety campaigners have called on UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to prevent under-16s from accessing social media platforms…

Vienna: The proposed social media ban in Austria has emerged after discussions within the country’s coalition government, aiming to limit…

London: The UK’s data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), and communications regulator Ofcom have written to several major…