Malaysia has begun enforcing new rules. Children under 16 are now banned from social media accounts. Platforms must implement age verificat...

The call followed the EU's announcement earlier ⁠this ⁠month that the app was ready, amid a broader push by member states to limit children...

Norway plans to ban children under 16 from social media. A bill will be presented to parliament by year-end. Technology companies will be r...

Australia's teen social media ban faces enforcement challenges due to platforms' weak application of available age-checking tools, not tech...

European Union is launching an age-verification app to shield children online. India's Karnataka state has banned social media for under-16...

On Wednesday, a Los Angeles jury found both Meta and YouTube liable for harms to children using their services. A day earlier in New Mexico...

A Los Angeles jury reached a verdict on Wednesday in a landmark social media addiction trial that involves Meta's Instagram and Google's Yo...

TikTok will start rolling out new age-detection technology across Europe in the coming weeks as the ByteDance-owned platform faces regulato...

The case asks a Milan court to require the platforms to adopt stronger age-verification systems for users under 14, in line with Italian la...

The report by the Financial Times also said the ByteDance-owned video platform is looking at technological advances, including working on l...

The European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA), which applies to all online platforms since Feb. 17, requires in particular very large onl...

Explicit content has long been a feature of the internet and social media, and young people's exposure to it has been a persistent concern.

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok €345 million ($379 million) for failing to protect children's data on its platf...

According to figures recently published by the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Young Children), Snapchat accounted...

Ireland's Data Protection Commission, which is lead EU regulator for many of the world's top internet firms due to the location of their re...

Starting Wednesday, the default privacy setting for TikTok users aged 13 to 15 will be private. That means only someone the user approves a...

The Delhi HC order of 2013 was in response to a petition by RSS ideologue KN Govindacharya vs. Google, Facebook & the Union of India.