Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced last week that the state has reached a settlement with Roblox, an online gaming platform popular with children and teenagers, that will require age verification, expanded parental controls and stronger safeguards against child exploitation. Under the agreement, Roblox will implement age verification measures and parental consent requirements, block nighttime...Read More

Plymouth Police officers responded to two separate disturbance calls over the weekend, resulting in two arrests — one involving a man who was irate and holding a child, the other a Kroger parking lot altercation that ended in a domestic battery charge. On Saturday evening, June 20th, Plymouth Police officers were dispatched to the area...Read More

LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin is suing online gaming platform Roblox and messaging service Discord claiming their platforms put children at risk from sexual predators. The suit asks the court to declare the companies’ business practices a public nuisance under Arkansas law, and order them to stop the practices outlined in the...Read More

Catholic bishops across the United Kingdom say they need to see more legislative detail before supporting government proposals to ban social media for youth under 16. On June 15, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology Liz Kendall announced to the House of Commons that the government “will ban social media companies providing their...Read More

On Monday, Arkansas became the latest state to sue Roblox over child safety concerns. The lawsuit claims that the popular gaming platform is “a breeding ground for sexual predators,” failing to keep its young users safe. Communications platform Discord was also named in the lawsuit over similar concerns. “These companies didn’t stumble into a child...Read More

The gaming platform, Roblox, has rolled out new safety features following concerns about children using the platform. One of those concerns came from Connecticut’s Attorney General, who is now investigating the company, calling it a “predators’ playground.” But Roblox said the new update is meant to help protect young users. One of those users is...Read More

HANOI: Demand for child safety seats surges ahead of a July 1 requirement for young children to use restraint systems in cars, but no testing or certification body has yet been authorised to certify the products. This has prompted the Vietnam Register to seek temporary measures from the Construction Ministry to address the bottleneck. Under...Read More

Social media gets blamed for many of America’s ills, including the polarization of our politics and the erosion of truth itself. But proving that harms have occurred to all of society is hard. Far easier to show is the damage to a specific class of people: adolescent girls, whose rates of depression, anxiety, and self-injury...Read More

Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a series of bills this year that are meant to reform the Department of Child Safety in the wake of multiple high-profile deaths. One of the biggest changes is from Senate Bill 1174, which requires DCS to include a child’s entire history in a single report if they’ve been the subject...Read More

Silvia Danailov, UNICEF Representative in Vietnam As I regularly meet children, parents and educators across Vietnam, I have seen both the opportunities and risks that digital technologies bring to children’s lives. The online world is not only helping a generation learn, connect and create, but also exposing them to challenges that no single institution can...Read More