By Maria Dinzeo ( March 31, 2026, 16:39 GMT | Insight) — As US states rapidly advance age-verification and child-safety laws, tech companies are undermining their own interests by using lobbyists to negotiate over these bills in statehouses rather than speaking to lawmakers directly, Vermont state Representative Monique Priestly said Tuesday.As US states rapidly advance...Read More
Australia’s online safety regulator has raised concerns that major social media platforms are not doing enough to keep children under 16 off their services, despite a new law now in force. The restriction, introduced in December 2025, bans users under 16 from accessing several popular platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube. But the...Read More
It’s well-known that teens experiment with illegal substances such as alcohol and marijuana. But recently, children and teens have turned their attention to substances found at home or local convenience stores. They’re abusing parents’ prescription painkillers, energy drinks and computer cleaners. Here are three new drug trends among kids: Energy drinks in elementary school Article...Read More
WashU Law professor Oliver Roberts discusses Australia’s investigation into potential violations of its ban on social media for children during ‘Fox & Friends First.’ Australia is investigating major social media companies, including Meta and TikTok, for potential breaches of a ban restricting access for children under 16. Oliver Roberts, a professor of law at WashU...Read More
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and that certainly has proved true for a group of teenagers in Tirana, Albania. Pictures, or specifically photos, have given these youths the means to tell their peers about the dangers of child trafficking. I met three of those teens — Adelajda, Mariglen, and Rodolf —...Read More
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The Ministry of Communication and Digital (Komdigi) is currently summoning social media developers in turn to undergo an examination of compliance with Government Regulation Number 17 of 2025 concerning the Governance of Electronic Systems in Child Protection (PP TUNAS). Meetings with major entities, such as Google and Meta, have recently been claimed...Read More
istockphoto A spoonful of sugar might help the medicine go down, but a spoonful of cinnamon is an entirely different story. It sounds like something you’d see on the television show, “Iron Chef”, only the innocent-sounding “cinnamon challenge” poses an alarming number of risks for kids and teens who take it on. Over the past...Read More
The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) said on Tuesday that banning the online gaming platform Roblox—currently facing child safety concerns—is the last option Philippine authorities want to take. “Let me state for the record that the last thing that we want to do is ban a platform and punish the legitimate users of that...Read More
Worrying about your kids is one of the defining traits of being a parent. But the nature of that worrying varies considerably across demographic groups, according to a recent Pew Research Center report. Low-income parents, for instance, are more concerned about teen pregnancy and their kids getting in trouble with the law than are higher-income parents....Read More
Americans are having a few regrets about their approach to child safety in the care of drug-using parents. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico said last month that she never should have signed the state’s 2019 Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act. “We were releasing, after they were well enough to go home, infants in the...Read More
