The SAFE for Kids Act and rules apply to “Addictive Online Platforms,” defined as platforms that display user-generated content and have users who spend at least 20 percent of their time on the platform’s addictive feeds measured over a six-month period. The full final rules can be found on OAG’s website. The final rules will...Read More
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, July 30 – Sri Lankan police are searching for six people regarding the murder of a Chinese national suspected of links to computer-related scams, an official said on Thursday, in a crackdown on cyberscam centres tied to transnational fraud networks. Authorities have arrested about 700 foreign nationals this year, Indian, Chinese,...Read More
Hackers known as ExfilSquad have stolen over 740,000 records from the UK Department for Education (DfE) and a police legal database, including personal and professional contact details of thousands of individuals. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES The breach, as reported by The Guardian, involves 607,000 lines of data from the DfE’s help-desk portal and 135,000...Read More
Say it with me: Correlation does not equal causation. But once again, we’ve got someone spinning noncausal survey results as “social media is bad news for teenagers,” despite the fact that most of the teens studied were only moderate users and problems among the heaviest users could cause social media overuse, rather than vice versa....Read More
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — A new video from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is addressing misinformation about creatine use among teenagers as the supplement gains attention on social media through the growing “looksmaxxing” trend. The hospital’s latest social media video warns that creatine is not a shortcut to muscle growth and highlights the lack of research on...Read More
NightDragon CEO Dave DeWalt has been appointed to Air’s board of directors DeWalt has been the CEO of technology companies McAfee, FireEye and Documentum The appointment is the latest of Air’s organizational changes in line with its rebranding into an enterprise readiness firm Air announced Wednesday that it has appointed Dave DeWalt, CEO of NightDragon,...Read More
Artificial intelligence has rapidly become the defining topic in cybersecurity. Executive teams are evaluating AI governance, and security leaders are preparing for increasingly sophisticated attacks powered by machine learning. Yet amid growing concern over emerging technologies, another vulnerability is expanding much more quietly inside enterprise environments, one that receives far less attention despite carrying significant...Read More
Quick summary – click for full details Concise summary of key highlights In one line Google expands age-assurance API globally to enhance child safety on Android apps and parental controls. Key points • Global age-assurance expansion Google is rolling out the Play Age Signals API worldwide to help developers enforce age-appropriate content and parental controls....Read More
Tech companies with young users have until January 2027 to comply with New York’s sweeping finalized guardrails on social media platforms. The framework released Tuesday is among the most advanced for children’s online safety in the US and comes amid a national movement to further restrict how online platforms engage with minors. Gov. Kathy Hochul...Read More
Companies who sell age-checking software want Australia to grant the eSafety commissioner investigative powers to “test” if social media companies are using their technology properly. The Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA) has backed Labor’s bill to strengthen Australia’s social media age laws and called on the federal government to go further with a mandatory audit...Read More
