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From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media accessNations worldwide are enacting strict rules for social media access by children. Australia has banned platforms for those under 16. Britain...- US nears $400 million settlement with TikTok on child-privacy violations: ABC NewsUS government is close to a $400 million deal with TikTok. This settlement addresses claims of child privacy breaches. The funds are report...
- Apple CEO Tim Cook pushes for changes in US child online safety bill, citing privacy concernsTim Cook urged US lawmakers to rethink a proposed law that could force Apple to verify users’ ages, warning it would require collecting sen...
- Google, Meta at loggerheads over age-verification methods for child usersGoogle and Meta have different ideas on verifying children's age online. This is happening because of rules in Europe and India. Google wan...
- Apple against new Texas online child safety bill? Here’s all you need to knowThe bill, introduced by Texas State Senator Angela Paxton, requires parental permission for anyone under 18 to access apps or make in-app p...
- Texas governor signs law to enforce age verification on Apple, Google app storesAge limits and parental consent for social media apps are among the few areas of wide US consensus, with a Pew Research poll in 2023 findin...
- This US state poised to enforce age verification on Apple, Google app stores for users under 18Texas is considering a law for age checks on app stores. Parental approval is needed for users under 18 to download apps. Apple and Google ...
- Social media companies yet to take a final call on mechanics of parental consentThe DPDP Rules require verifiable parental consent for processing children's data, creating challenges for social media companies. While la...
- DPDP Act: parents prefer one-time consent for children's dataSection 9 of the DPDP Act mandates parental consent for the processing of children’s data and restricts personalised content for minors und...
- Govt eyes Big Tech, startups meet over DPDP Act age-gatingThe government will discuss with the companies the best possible solution for verifying the age of children and getting parental consent. U...
- Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16The state's Republican-led legislature passed a bill in February that would have banned children under 16 from social media entirely. DeSan...
- Meta, Google may lock horns over age-gating, consent normsSocial media and internet giants Google and Meta are headed for a clash in India over the critical issue of age verification and consent ma...
- Government to spell out ‘risk-based’ plan for social media age-gatingAge-verification of children – that is, users below the age of 18 – could be done through documents stored either in DigiLocker, an Aadhaar...
- From QR codes to tokens, firms parse ideas for age-gatingMany companies are also favouring a token-based mechanism - which is akin to tokenisation of credit cards - for obtaining verifiable parent...
- Majority of Indian parents say their kids addicted to social media, OTT: SurveyThe survey further revealed that 73% of urban Indian parents surveyed want the data protection law to ensure mandatory parental consent is ...
- Soon, store parental consent in DigiLockerSocial media platforms such as Meta's Facebook or Instagram and Google’s YouTube Kids will be able to directly fetch and verify documents o...
- Verifying ID for social media use could pose security risk: ExpertsThe Digital Personal Data Protection bill defines children as those below 18 years, which is above the global threshold. Users above 13 yea...
- Co-parenting apps are gaining popularity in IndiaMostly US-based co-parenting apps such as We Parent, Our Family Wizard and Talking Parents are becoming part of Indian couples fighting acr...
- Data protection Bill puts Indian children at a disadvantage. Here's howOver-reliance on parents for consent may curtail access for teenagers due to various reasons, including parents' lack of exposure, gender b...
- Meta rolls out parental supervision tools on InstagramThe new parental controls are part of Meta's promise to protect children using its social media apps, after a whistleblower leaked internal...
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