online child safety

k-ID’s platform makes it easy for game devs to comply with child safety and data privacy regulations.

k-ID wins $45M to help game devs speedrun the child safety compliance puzzle

The European Union is formally investigating TikTok’s compliance with the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), the Commission has announced. Areas the Commission is focusing on in this investigation of TikTok…

EU opens formal probe of TikTok under Digital Services Act, citing child safety, risk management and other concerns

AI-generated imagery and other forms of deepfakes depicting child sexual abuse (CSA) could be criminalized in the European Union under plans to update existing legislation to keep pace with technology…

EU proposes criminalizing AI-generated child sexual abuse and deepfakes

The U.K. government has denied a fresh parliamentary delay to the Online Safety Bill will delay the legislation’s passage. The legislation is a core plank of the government’s 2019 manifesto…

UK government denies fresh delay to Online Safety Bill will derail it

Research examining default settings and terms & conditions offered to minors by social media giants TikTok, WhatsApp and Instagram across 14 different countries — including the U.S., Brazil, Indonesia and…

Children’s rights groups call out TikTok’s ‘design discrimination’

TikTok is making a promotional push in Europe and Australia around a bundle of safety-focused features, some of which it announced in the US earlier this month, and which it…

TikTok pushes bundle of teen safety measures internationally

The U.K. government has named five projects that have scored public funding under a “tech safety” challenge announced in September — when the Home Office said it wanted to encourage…

UK names five projects to get funding for CSAM detection

The U.K.’s data protection watchdog has written to Apple and Google seeking details of how they assess apps to determine the age ratings they apply following concerns raised by an…

Apple, Google questioned by ICO over app age ratings after UK child safety charity raises concerns