This article is sponsored by The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Like most middle school students, seventh-grader Aisha Chavda is concerned about cyberbullying. But unlike most, she decided to do something about it. “I don’t like when something is wrong in a community and there isn’t really a feasible solution,” she says. Chavda targeted a...Read More
Ruby O’Rourke has launched SAFE for child care centres and other child-facing services across Australia. The platform was developed over 12 years. SAFE is designed to help organisations identify children who may be at risk by collecting routine behavioural observations and analysing them as patterns over time. It uses machine learning and natural language processing...Read More
‘Storage Wars’ star claims co-star Darrell Sheets was cyber bullied before death “Storage Wars” star Rene Nezhoda has claimed that his co-star, Darrell Sheets, was being cyberbullied prior to his death. Sheets died on Wednesday at his home in Arizona of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was 67....Read More
Das Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG) lädt in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) und dem DSA Observatory sowie mit Unterstützung des Network of Centres (NoC) zu einer neuen Reihe von Learning Calls ein. Diese befassen sich mit aktuellen Themen im Zusammenhang mit dem DSA. Die Reihe findet...Read More
When Damarion Spann, 18, saw an Instagram flier calling for a massive gathering on a beach near downtown Chicago, he immediately wanted to go. Thousands of others joined him that night on the sand, blasting music and dancing. The cultural trend of so-called teen takeovers has popped up across the U.S. in recent years, influencing...Read More
Australia’s national child safety reforms have reached another significant milestone, with the release of the Advanced Child Safety training for the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector. Available now through the Australian Government’s Geccko online learning platform, the advanced training represents the next stage of the mandatory national child safety training package, helping educators, leaders and...Read More
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-sponsored Child Passenger Safety on School Buses National Training returns to the 2026 Transporting Students with Disabilities and Special Needs Conference and Trade Show but on a new day. The all-day, hands-on training is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 5 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Dallas-Frisco Convention...Read More
The Children’s Social Media Safety Act signed by JB Pritzker is designed to protect children online and limit access to social media algorithms. It will require social media companies to verify a child’s age on the device’s operating system and use stricter features for minors like limiting location-sharing and nighttime notifications. Capitol News Illinois Gov....Read More
Content notification on self-harm, child sexual abuse and exploitation In its latest financial report, Roblox Corp lauds its safety tools, including proactive age-checks to access communications as well as age-based accounts, as a pathway to continue to set a standard for digital safety—despite ongoing legal pressure from state governments and parents of children abused on...Read More
In a concerning traffic stop on Highway 401 in South Dundas, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers discovered a serious safety violation involving a child. On Monday, an officer pulled over a vehicle traveling at 153 km/h, far exceeding the 100 km/h speed limit. During the stop, it was revealed that a young child in the...Read More
