Meghan Markle delivered a powerful speech while in Geneva, Switzerland over the weekend on the impact of online bullying on children. The Duchess of Sussex attended the inauguration ceremony for The Lost Screen Memorial on Geneva’s Place des Nations, ahead of the opening of the 79th World Health Assembly. She was joined by World Health...Read More
Photo by Zulfugar Karimov Around the US, a number of state legislatures have passed, or ar working to pass, various laws which would require people to “verify” their ages such that those under different ages would find themselves excluded from some or all computer and Internet access. It all started, of course, with Internet pornography....Read More
Ariel Fox Johnson is an attorney and senior advisor on privacy policy for Common Sense Media, a national non-profit based in San Francisco. She filed an amicus brief on behalf of Common Sense Media in support of California’s Age Appropriate Design Code in Netchoice v. Bonta. Over the past year, the Ninth Circuit has largely...Read More
HOUSTON – As Houston prepares to welcome thousands of visitors for major events like the FIFA World Cup, child safety advocates are encouraging parents to start important conversations now about protecting children both online and in public spaces. Texas continues to rank among the top states in the country for human trafficking reports. According to...Read More
Sinking of the Titanic, 14 April 1912. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images) SSPL via Getty Images Forty-five minutes before the Titanic hit the iceberg, wireless operator Jack Phillips received a final warning from the nearby Californian: they were “stopped surrounded by ice.” Phillips famously snapped back, “DDD,” shorthand for “shut up,” so he could finish transmitting...Read More
New child safety commitments secured by Ofcom include tighter contact settings, AI detection tools, and direct chat controls. Ofcom said Snap, Meta, and Roblox plan to introduce additional child safety measures in the UK following regulatory pressure to strengthen protections against online grooming. The commitments were outlined in an Ofcom report reviewing how major platforms...Read More
RALEIGH, N.C. (WBTV) — Meeting Dominique Moody’s great-uncle in the North Carolina General Assembly building earlier this month was a more joyful meeting than when we met a few months ago. Our first meeting came in early January at J. Vernon Peterson’s funeral home in Fayetteville, where his team prepared Dominique Moody’s body for her...Read More
Online safety organizations have filed a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), asking the agency to formally assess Roblox’s alleged risks to children. The Request for Investigation, submitted by child safety nonprofit Fairplay and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), argues that Roblox’s design features and advertising violate portions of the FTC Act...Read More
Online child safety campaigners including Jonathan Haidt, the bestselling writer on the mental health impacts of social media, have called on the Trump administration to investigate Roblox, the booming gaming and chat platform used by 150 million people daily, including a large number of under-13s. Haidt’s Anxious Generation Movement, Fairplay and the rightwing anti-pornography National...Read More
LONDON, May 21 : TikTok and Alphabet’s YouTube have failed to set out meaningful steps to protect British children from harmful online content, media regulator Ofcom said on Thursday, citing data showing widespread exposure on their platforms. Ofcom said neither company had made significant new commitments to make recommendation feeds safer, despite evidence that these...Read More
