Nanit and Other Baby-Tracking Start-Ups Eye Collecting Even More Data
Baby monitors have their roots in fear. In 1932, American parents were horrified to learn that Charles A. Lindbergh’s toddler ...
Tag: Children and Childhood
Mistaken Username Sent Man to Prison for 18 Months, Court Finds
A Canadian man served 18 months in prison after being wrongfully convicted of offenses related to child sexual abuse imagery ...
Lawsuit Against Meta Over Social Media Addiction Is Dropped
A 15-year-old Florida teenager who accused Meta of creating addictive and harmful social media features dropped his bellwether lawsuit against ...
The Yoto Music Box Is a Ray of Hope Amid the ‘Techlash’
When Ben Drury was shopping for his newborn at a department store in London, he saw something that made him ...
Many Child Safety Features on Social Apps Don’t Work, Report Finds
Child safety features on the most popular social media apps often don’t work as advertised, a new report found.Researchers at ...
Ryanair Stops Charging for Parents to Sit With Their Children
Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, said on Thursday that it had scrapped a fee that parents had to pay to sit ...
A Viral Knicks Moment, Brought to You by a Prediction Market
Celebrity look-alike contests have become a summer staple. But this one was singular: The most convincing Jalen Brunson doppelgänger would ...
UK Announces Social Media Ban for Children Under 16
The British government plans to ban access to social media for all children under 16, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said ...
What to Know About Planned Social Media Bans in Australia, the U.K. and Beyond
Britain will introduce measures to ban social media for children under 16 and to restrict access to other sorts of ...
Britain Is Weighing a Social Media Ban for Children. How Did It Get Here?
Two years ago, when Daisy Greenwell and a group of fellow British parents first gathered to share concerns about the ...
‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: How Social Media Apps Hooked Teens at School
Snapchat sent phone alerts to adolescents during school hours, urging them to share what was going on in their classrooms.Meta ...
Meta Expands Safety Features for Teenagers
Meta unveiled new safety features on Tuesday to limit harmful content shown to teenagers on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, its ...
What Ireland and Germany Can Teach Us About Birthright Citizenship
Mariam Sobayo came achingly close to feeling like she belonged in Ireland.She was born in Dublin on Feb. 10, 2005, ...
Florida Sues OpenAI Over Chatbot Safety Concerns
Florida on Monday became the first state to sue OpenAI over claims that ChatGPT posed a risk to children and ...
Teachers Union Urges Schools to Curb A.I. Chatbots and Screen Time
Warning that young people “are drowning in tech,” Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, called on ...
Senate Republicans Introduce Funding Measure to Combat Online Child Abuse
Senate Republicans on Tuesday included in their reconciliation bill a significant increase in funding to fight child sexual trafficking and ...
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