For months, Big Tech’s Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress and signed by the president, applying one set of AI rules across the entire country and overriding the legally messy state-by-state approach to regulation. For months, lobbyists have run...Read More
With an increasing number of countries implementing social media bans for young users, there’s a growing sense that these restrictions are becoming more common and that social platforms could face a reckoning. On Monday, Britain joined those countries, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer announcing legislation to ban British children under 16 from a range of...Read More
WALLACE — A Spokane man was arrested Saturday on charges of attempting to solicit a child for sexual activity. He was apprehended after being caught by an online group. Howard Penney, 55, was charged Monday with three felonies: child sexual abuse, enticing a child through the internet or other communication device and possession of sexually...Read More
Florida’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against TikTok on Monday, alleging that the platform is violating the state’s child safety law, which prohibits social media companies from allowing children under the age of 14 to create accounts, News.Az reports, citing Reuters. The lawsuit, filed in state court in St. Lucie County, accuses TikTok of...Read More
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Monday that the UK will ban youth under 16 from using a range of social media apps, to protect them from harmful content and excessive screen time. The government expects the rules to take effect in spring 2027. They would cover user-to-user platforms such as Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram,...Read More
Society has a complicated relationship with adolescents. We want to protect them as children and yet launch them into adulthood. Adolescents face risks from testing out independence, navigating peer relationships, developing an identity and making mistakes in these processes. Today’s teens have new areas of risk and opportunity as they navigate the digital world, and...Read More
OCALA, Fla. (CBS12) — Fifty-eight suspected child predators were arrested after a five-day undercover operation in Marion County in which investigators posed as children as young as 7 online, Florida authorities said. The suspects allegedly engaged in sexually explicit conversations and arranged meetings despite being told they were communicating with minors, law enforcement officials announced...Read More
WALLACE — A Spokane man was arrested Saturday on charges of attempting to solicit a child for sexual activity. He was apprehended after being caught by an online group. Howard Penney, 55, was charged Monday with three felonies: child sexual abuse, enticing a child through the internet or other communication device and possession of sexually...Read More
Kempton Park SAPS Social Crime Prevention, together with POWA and the Time to Care Foundation, visited Rethabile Community Crèche in Max Squatter Camp on June 4 as part of Child Protection Week and Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) awareness initiatives. The visit aimed to educate children about different forms of child abuse, their rights and...Read More
The UK’s decision to ban social media use for teens under 16 marks a moment where government regulation is catching up to consumer expectations. Forrester’s April 2026 Consumer Pulse Survey, fielded two months before this decision, indicates that in the UK, 67% of consumers supported banning social media use for teens under 16, and 60%...Read More
