In a decisive meeting with executives from leading social media platforms, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called for heightened accountability and tangible measures to ensure children’s safety online. Starmer emphasized that the current systems are inadequate and urged firms like Meta, Snap, Google, TikTok, and X to take substantial steps rather than offering mere...Read More
A sexual predator has been jailed after sending explicit messages to a person he believed was a child. Declan Sains, 28, was caught after talking to who he thought was a 14-year-old boy online, but instead was an undercover police officer. When Sains was arrested at his home in Bishop Auckland, officers discovered more sexual...Read More
Keir Starmer has told social media firms that “things can’t go on like this” in a meeting with tech bosses in Downing Street as pressure mounts for tougher restrictions on the industry. Ministers are considering imposing an under-16 age restriction on social media as well as other options to limit app use. Here are the...Read More
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has delivered a blunt ultimatum to the world’s most powerful social media executives, warning that “harm cannot be the price of participation” for British children online. In a high-stakes Downing Street summit on Thursday, 16 April, the Prime Minister and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall grilled senior figures from Meta, Snap,...Read More
A sexual predator has been jailed after sending explicit messages to a person he believed was a child. Declan Sains, 28, was caught after talking to who he thought was a 14-year-old boy online, but instead was an undercover police officer. When Sains was arrested at his home in Bishop Auckland, officers discovered more sexual...Read More
INDIANAPOLIS — A social-media video of the director at the Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS) touting a Lebanon faith-based program for troubled teens as “safe” is raising concerns about a potential conflict of interest. WATCH FULL STORY BELOW DCS director’s social-media video touting faith-based program as “safe” raises questions In the November 2025 video...Read More
A multi-stakeholder consultation on strengthening child-related provisions under the Motor Vehicles Act 2019, was organised at the Indian Institute of Public Health in Hyderabad on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A multi-stakeholder consultation on strengthening child-related provisions under the Motor Vehicles Act 2019 and improving enforcement mechanisms brought together policy-makers, experts, and frontline officials...Read More
article Courtesy: Polk County Sheriff’s Office DUNDEE, Fla. – A missing teenage girl has been recovered, and a registered sex offender has been arrested after she was discovered in a sex offender’s closet in Polk County. What we know: According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the agency was contacted by the Orange County Sheriff’s...Read More
As moves for social-media bans for under-16s increase around the world, the US-based Pew Research Center has published an interesting new study on how and why teenagers use three key platforms: TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. It interviewed 1,485 pairs of teenagers (defined here as 13-17 year-olds) for the study. It found that entertainment is the biggest reason...Read More
Roblox has agreed to pay more than $12 million to the state of Nevada as part of a settlement that includes additional protections for child safety. As Reuters reports, Roblox will provide $10 million over three years for youth programs in Nevada and $2.5 million for an online safety campaign and a law enforcement liaison....Read More
