- TikTok Users Feel Pressured To Buy Digital Gifts
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, July 3, 2019
The BBC is claiming it has received assurances that the social media platform for children, TikTok, would strengthen its policies after the corporation revealed that many of its young use ...
- Children's Charities Want The Right To Sue Tech Giants Over Online Abuse
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, July 2, 2019
The Children's Charities' Coalition on Internet Safety (CCCIS) is calling on the Government to include the right for children who are abused on social media to sue the tech giant ...
- Children Want To Wipe Social Profiles Clean At 18
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, June 27, 2019
Research from the London School of Economics calls on the Government to consider allowing children to wipe clean their social media profiles when they reach 18, "The Telegraph" reports. T ...
- Lawmaker, Children's Advocates Push For Privacy Overhaul On YouTube
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 25, 2019
"It is incumbent upon the FTC to enforce federal law and act as a check against the ever increasing appetite for children's data," Sen. Ed Markey says. The watchdogs a ...
- Encryption Plans Will Put Children At Risk, Sajid Javid Claims
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Home Secretary Sajid Javid has criticised social media platforms for pressing ahead for plans to encrypt their platforms, which he says will put children in danger of online sex abus ...
- FTC Probing YouTube Over Alleged Failure To Protect Kids, Improper Data Collection
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, June 19, 2019
The agency has been investigating YouTube about these issues since 2015, and a settlement may be coming, reports "The Washington Post." ...
- Campaigners Call For Ban On Marketing 'Junk Food' Through Animated Characters
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, June 4, 2019
The Action on Salt and Action on Sugar pressure groups are campaigning for the Government to ban the use of popular animated characters in promoting "junk food" to children, "T ...
- Parents Can Proceed With Privacy Suit Over Mobile Gaming Apps
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 23, 2019
Citing shifting privacy norms, a federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that mobile game developers and ad-tech companies violate children's privacy by harvesting their data for ...
- Police Urge Tech Giants To Do More On Child Abuse Imagery
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, May 16, 2019
The tech giants are being urged to do far more by the police as figures show the number of child abuse images have increased tenfold in just five years, "T ...
- Tech Giants Share Information With Child Abuse Inquiry Behind Closed Doors
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Tech giants have been given the right to give evidence to a child abuse inquiry in the UK. "The Telegraph" reveals that the companies say they need anonymity to sha ...
- FTC Urged To Investigate Amazon's Echo Dot Kids Edition Over Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 9, 2019
Product "used in homes -- often in a child's bedroom --[so] it can collect vast amounts of personal information directly from children," says complaint. ...
- Social Media Giants Catch A Break From Researchers
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Oxford University researchers have shown that screen time and social media cause virtually no happiness issues for most kids. ...
- Time On Social Media Is Not Harming Kids, Researchers Claim
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, May 7, 2019
A University of Oxford study has found that children are not harmed by the amount of time they spend on social media, "The Times" reports. The academics blame "sloppy" scien ...
- Watchdog Faults Facebook Over Mobile App
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 3, 2019
The self-regulatory watchdog Children's Advertising Review Unit has found that Facebook didn't comply with the "spirit" of a federal privacy law, because the company's mobile app allowed children to easi ...
- FTC Fines Teen Fashion Site Over Privacy Violations
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 29, 2019
News of the fine comes more than two years after a hacker obtained more than email addresses, passwords, birthdates and other personal information of i-Dressup's more than two million use ...
- March For Our Lives And Gen L (Generation Lockdown)
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Monday, April 29, 2019
March For Our Lives has issued a powerful new PSA from McCann that highlights the stark reality of the potentially dangerous situation faced by school kids in the U.S. ...
- ICO Fines Baby Club GBP400k Over Sharing Data
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, April 12, 2019
The mother and baby club, Bounty, has been fined GBP400,000 by the ICO for breaching the Data Protection Act, the BBC reports. For several years up to April 2018, befo ...
- Proposed New Internet Laws Welcomed By Police, Charities
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, April 8, 2019
"The Guardian" is reporting that proposed new laws to hold internet sites accountable for harmful content they fail to remove are being widely welcomed by the police and childrens' charit ...
- CPSC, Fisher-Price Warn Parents About 'Sleeper' For Infants Who Roll
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Thom Forbes - Monday, April 8, 2019
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is currently investigating Fisher-Price's Rock 'n Play Sleeper, on which at least 10 infants older than three months have died. ...
- This Show Is Brought To You By A... Salad?
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Monday, March 18, 2019
New Government proposals will ban junk-food ads before 9pm both on tv and online. ...
- New Mexico AG Presses Claims Against Google
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 13, 2019
"Google represented that the Tiny Lab Apps were suitable for play by children -- despite knowing that the Tiny Lab Apps unlawfully collect children's personal information," the New Mexico Attorn ...
- Senators Propose Banning Behavioral Targeting Of Teens Under 16
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 12, 2019
The "Digital Marketing Bill of Rights for Minors" would also require companies to obtain explicit consent from teens between the ages of 13 and 15 before collecting their personal informati ...
- 'The Dodo' Expands Into Children's Programming With 'Dodo Kids'
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Friday, March 1, 2019
Dodo Kids will develop episodic animal video content aimed at children 11 and younger. It will first focus on video for YouTube, starting in the spring. OTT distribution will co ...
- Instagram Is The Biggest Site For Child Grooming, Police Warn
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, March 1, 2019
Police figures from England and Wales have shown Instagram as the site where most child grooming takes places, the BBC reports. It was used in nearly a third of a ...
- YouTube Bans Comments On Videos Featuring Children
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, March 1, 2019
YouTube has vowed to remove comments on all videos featuring young children, "The Guardian" reports. The move comes after it became clear that paedophiles were making comments under videos th ...
- FTC Fines TikTok $5.7M Over Children's Privacy Violations
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Thursday, February 28, 2019
TikTok will be required to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) going forward. It will have to delete all videos created by children under the age ...
- TikTok To Verify Ages, But Only In The US
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, February 28, 2019
Although TikTok has been found guilty of knowingly allowing underage children to be on its Musical.ly app, resulting in a fine in the US of $5.7m, the social media gia ...
- Senators Want FTC To Scrutinize Facebook Over 'Friendly Fraud'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 22, 2019
"It is clear that Facebook did not step in when it became aware that developers were encouraging children to make unauthorized credit card purchases, even when those games targeted children ...
- TV For Beginners And Enders
MediaDailyNews, George Simpson - Thursday, February 21, 2019
Stats on TV consumption favor "children ages 0-2." ...
- FTC Urged To Investigate Facebook For Duping Children
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 21, 2019
"Facebook's internal documents indicate a callous disregard for young people and a culture that prioritized profits over people," watchdogs say in a new letter to the FTC. ...
