- 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 campaigni ...
- 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 ...
- 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 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 ...
- 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] ...
- 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 cau ...
- 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 harm ...
- 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 ...
- 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 hack ...
- 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 McCa ...
- 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 t ...
- 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 sit ...
- 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 Pl ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 compani ...
- '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 ...
- 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 si ...
- 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 childre ...
- 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 Protecti ...
- 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 ...
- 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 beca ...
- 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 ...
- YouTube Changes Penalty System After Pedophilia Flap
Publishing Insider, - Wednesday, February 20, 2019
The action follows criticism of the video-sharing platform for monetizing videos th ...
- Walmart, Dreamworks Team For Dragon Movie VR Experience
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Sunday, February 17, 2019
Walmart has teamed with Dreamworks Animation to create an immersive virtual reali ...
- Lego Intros 'Haunted World' AR App
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Friday, February 15, 2019
In the game, children use the AR feature in the Lego a ...
- Head Teachers Call For Better Protection Of Children Online
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, February 15, 2019
The country's largest head teacher group, the National Association of Head Teache ...
- Sexual Internet Crimes Against Children Treble In Three Years
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, February 11, 2019
As part of its campaign for social media companies to be giv ...
- Children Vulnerable To Predators On Dating Apps
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, February 11, 2019
The "Sunday Times" has uncovered evidence that underage users of dating ap ...