#parental controls

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fromEngadget
2 weeks ago

PEGI ratings for game releases in Europe will be age-restricted if they contain loot boxes

Purchases of in-game content: games with time-limited or quantity-limited offers will be classified with a PEGI 12, games with NFTs or blockchain-related mechanisms will be PEGI 18. Paid random items: the default rating will be PEGI 16 if the game contains paid random items (and in some cases they can be a PEGI 18).
Video games
#parental-controls
Mental health
fromFortune
1 month ago

As Meta battles addiction claims in court, Instagram says it will start notifying parents of kids searching for suicide or self-harm | Fortune

Instagram will alert parents enrolled in its supervision program when teens repeatedly search for suicide or self-harm related terms, while blocking such content from teen search results.
Mental health
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Instagram says it will notify parents about searches for terms related to suicide

Instagram will alert parents enrolled in its supervision program if teens repeatedly search for suicide or self-harm related terms, while blocking such content from search results and directing users to helplines.
Privacy technologies
fromGSMArena.com
2 weeks ago

WhatsApp introduces parent-managed accounts for pre-teens

WhatsApp launches parent-managed accounts for pre-teens globally, enabling parents to control messaging, calling, contacts, and group participation through a PIN-protected system.
Privacy technologies
fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

Meta will let kids under 13 use WhatsApp with parent-managed accounts

Meta introduces parent-managed WhatsApp accounts for children under 13, enabling parents to control messaging contacts and restrict features while maintaining end-to-end encryption.
Privacy technologies
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

WhatsApp is launching parent-linked accounts for pre-teens | TechCrunch

WhatsApp launched parent-supervised accounts for users under 13 with messaging and calling only, no ads, and parental controls via QR code authentication and activity alerts.
fromFortune
1 month ago
Mental health

As Meta battles addiction claims in court, Instagram says it will start notifying parents of kids searching for suicide or self-harm | Fortune

#ai-regulation
fromThe Mercury News
4 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Lehane: How California can set the standard for teen AI safety

California's Parents & Kids Safe AI Act proposes age-verification and parental controls for AI systems to protect minors from manipulation and mental health risks, establishing a national regulatory standard.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 weeks ago
Education

Lehane: How California can set the standard for teen AI safety

California's Parents & Kids Safe AI Act proposes age-verification and parental controls to protect minors from AI risks, preventing a repeat of social media's unregulated harm to teens.
Education
fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 weeks ago

Lehane: How California can set the standard for teen AI safety

California's Parents & Kids Safe AI Act proposes age-verification and parental controls to protect minors from AI risks, preventing a repeat of social media's unregulated harm to teens.
Gadgets
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Tin Can Is a Dumb Phone for Kids. Can Someone Teach Them How to Use It?

The Tin Can is a Wi-Fi-based kids' phone without internet access that teaches phone etiquette through voice-only communication and has sold over 100,000 units since April.
#teen-mental-health
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Mental health

Instagram now alerts parents if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Mental health

Instagram now alerts parents if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content | TechCrunch

Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Instagram to alert parents if teens repeatedly search self-harm terms

Instagram will alert parents enrolled in its supervision program if their teens repeatedly search for suicide or self-harm related terms, while blocking such content from teen search results.
Mental health
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Instagram will alert parents if their kids search for self-harm topics

Instagram will alert parents when teens repeatedly search for self-harm or suicide-related terms, launching next week in select countries for opted-in users.
Apple
fromEngadget
1 month ago

Apple introduces age verification for apps in Utah, Louisiana and Australia

Apple is implementing age verification tools to block users under 18 from downloading 18+ rated apps in multiple regions, complying with new US and international age assurance laws.
#ad-blocking
Gadgets
fromZDNET
1 month ago

Looking for a kids' tablet? Here's what my family uses (with a free screen repair)

Amazon's Fire HD 10 Kids Pro combines faster performance, improved battery life, and a better front-facing camera with kid-focused durability and parental-friendly replacement/trade-in options.
#meta
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
US news

Meta's own research found parental supervision doesn't really help curb teens' compulsive social media use | TechCrunch

fromEngadget
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg was initially opposed to parental controls for AI chatbots, according to legal filing

fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Tech industry

Meta pauses teen access to AI characters as it develops a specially tailored version | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
US news

Meta's own research found parental supervision doesn't really help curb teens' compulsive social media use | TechCrunch

fromEngadget
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg was initially opposed to parental controls for AI chatbots, according to legal filing

fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Tech industry

Meta pauses teen access to AI characters as it develops a specially tailored version | TechCrunch

#child-online-safety
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How Tech Companies Rig Parental Guilt

Talita Pruett, a California mom of three children ages 14, 13, and 5, is doing everything she can to be a present, involved parent. But one issue weighs on her more than anything else: guilt over media use. She has tried it all: screen-time limits, content filters, charging phones in her bedroom at night, and regular conversations about healthy media habits. Still, she says, guilt lingers, both about her children's media use and her own.
Parenting
fromWIRED
3 years ago

How to Set Up an Apple Watch for Your Kids

At this point, you can have your kid put it on (if it's charged). The watch will say Bring iPhone Near Apple Watch. If you open the Watch app, it lets you choose to Set Up for a Family Member. Aim the phone's viewfinder at the slowly moving animation to pair, or select Pair Manually. Apple's tutorial is pretty straightforward from this point. I picked a passcode that's easy for my daughter to remember and picked her from my family list. I continued cellular service.
Apple
#snapchat
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Privacy professionals

Snapchat gives parents new insights into teens' screen time and friends | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Privacy professionals

Snapchat gives parents new insights into teens' screen time and friends | TechCrunch

Startup companies
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Lyft opens its ride-hailing app to teens | TechCrunch

Lyft now offers parent-supervised teen accounts for ages 13 and up in 200 U.S. cities with safety features, parental controls, and shared payment options.
#lyft-teen
fromFortune
1 month ago
Mobile UX

Lyft introduces feature to help get teenagers out of the house: 'The problems of 2026 are social isolation and too much screen time' | Fortune

fromFortune
1 month ago
Mobile UX

Lyft introduces feature to help get teenagers out of the house: 'The problems of 2026 are social isolation and too much screen time' | Fortune

Gadgets
fromEngadget
1 month ago

AT&T's budget-friendly phone for kids was designed with parental controls in mind

AT&T's AmiGO Jr. Phone is a Samsung Galaxy A16 with built-in parental controls like location tracking, safe zones, and screentime limits.
#att
fromZDNET
1 month ago
Gadgets

AT&T's new phone for kids might solve your biggest problem with parental controls - for $3 a month

fromZDNET
1 month ago
Gadgets

AT&T's new phone for kids might solve your biggest problem with parental controls - for $3 a month

Mobile UX
fromGSMArena.com
1 month ago

AT&T announces kid-friendly amiGO Jr. Phone and amiGO Jr. Watch 2 aimed at kids 12 and under

AT&T launched the amiGO Jr. Phone, a Samsung Galaxy A17 (5G) variant for kids under 12 with the amiGO app providing extensive parental controls and monitoring.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Navigating the Impacts of AI-Driven Social Media Algorithms

AI-driven personalization concentrates content exposure, creating echo chambers that can amplify harmful material while offering community and discovery benefits for isolated youth.
fromMashable
2 months ago

Enjoy a peaceful internet experience for life with this $20 tool

Get ready for a peaceful internet experience thanks to the AdGuard Family Plan. This tool lets you browse seamlessly by blocking all types of ads, so you can enjoy your time online with no distractions or frustrations. Not only will AdGuard provide more than your average , but it will also protect your privacy by blocking trackers, hiding your data, and stopping malware, phishing sites, and cyberattacks in their tracks.
Privacy technologies
#youtube
Miscellaneous
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases | TechCrunch

Italy's competition authority is investigating Activision Blizzard for allegedly using manipulative design and monetization in Diablo Immortal and Call of Duty Mobile.
Miscellaneous
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Italian regulators are investigating Activision Blizzard's monetization practices

Italian regulator is investigating Activision Blizzard's Diablo Immortal and Call of Duty: Mobile for misleading, aggressive monetization practices, deceptive UI, and permissive parental controls.
US politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

Google accused of grooming' 13-year-old by telling them to ditch parental controls

Google emailed under-13s outlining how to turn off parental controls, sparking accusations of grooming; parents will now have to approve supervision changes after a policy update.
#kids-phone
#roblox
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Doomscrolling, people pleasing and low-fat foods? Life's too short! Nine writers on what they won't bother with this year

I tried the usual tricks: switching off notifications, deleting addictive apps, moving icons around, greyscale mode. None of it worked. Without notifications, I just checked more to see if something had happened. When I deleted apps, I used the browser instead. And when I deleted that I would eventually reinstall everything in a weak moment. (Which usually meant spending even more time on my phone as I had to log in everywhere again.)
Digital life
#kidnapping
fromEngadget
3 months ago

How to set up an iPad for a child

Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad, tap your name at the top and select Family. Tap Add Member, then Create Child Account, and follow the onscreen prompts. You'll need to provide your child's name and birth date, along with parental consent using your own Apple ID password. Once created, the account is automatically added to your Family Sharing group.
Apple
Apple
fromEngadget
3 months ago

How to set up an Apple Watch for a child

Family Setup enables parents to set up and manage a cellular Apple Watch for a child with communication, location, Schooltime and privacy controls.
Mental health
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 months ago

ChatGPT fails the test: this is how it endangers the lives of minors

OpenAI's ChatGPT parental controls failed to alert parents and provided harmful guidance to fictional teenagers, exposing insufficient protections against self-harm and risky behavior.
Gadgets
fromFast Company
3 months ago

Tin Can has reinvented the house phone for today's families

The Tin Can is a screenless, kid-focused home phone that enables calls and voicemails to parent-approved numbers to encourage independent, offline socializing and delay smartphones.
Privacy professionals
fromFuturism
3 months ago

The Things Young Kids Are Using AI for Are Absolutely Horrifying

Many children use AI companion apps for violent roleplay, including sexual violence, which drives higher engagement than other chatbot topics.
Tech industry
fromWIRED
3 months ago

Gear News of the Week: Google Drops Another Android Update, and the Sony A7 V Is Here

Android adds major features: custom themes and icons, enhanced parental controls, AI notification summaries, accessibility upgrades, and Pixel-first rollouts to other devices later.
Digital life
fromSocial Media Today
3 months ago

YouTube Moves to Comply with Australian Teen Social Bans

Australia's new law will sign out users under 16 from YouTube starting 10 December 2025, including supervised accounts, and remove account-based parental controls.
#android-16
Gadgets
fromArs Technica
3 months ago

Google announces second Android 16 release of 2025 is heading to Pixels

Google applies Material 3 theming and expanded dark-mode/icon options to Pixels, adds on-device parental controls, and rolls Chrome/Messages/Dialer updates to Android.
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
4 months ago

Privacy is For the Children (Too)

In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out different digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification requirements with digital ID in mind. This blog is the third in a short series that explains digital ID and the pending use case of age verification. Here, we cover alternative frameworks on age controls, updates on parental controls, and the importance of digital privacy in an increasingly hostile climate politically.
Parenting
Privacy technologies
fromTechCrunch
4 months ago

Discord's Family Center update now lets parents monitor weekly purchases | TechCrunch

Discord's Family Center now shows guardians teens' purchases, time spent, top interactions, and offers parental controls for DMs, sensitive-content filtering, and data privacy.
Apple
fromWIRED
5 months ago

Apple's Family Sharing Helps Keep Children Safe. Until It Doesn't

Parental-control systems like Family Sharing can lock children into family accounts, making resets traumatic and limiting child autonomy over digital identity.
Video games
fromWGB
5 months ago

Phil Spencer Talks AI Use At Xbox: "I really leave it up to the teams"

Xbox has no top-down mandate to use AI; creative teams choose tools, while AI is heavily used for security, moderation, and parental controls.
Artificial intelligence
fromKotaku
5 months ago

Phil Spencer Says There's No 'Top-Down Mandate' To Use AI At Xbox

Microsoft Gaming primarily uses AI for platform moderation and parental controls, with potential future use in game discovery and curation.
#instagram
#youtube-shorts
Mobile UX
fromGSMArena.com
5 months ago

Meta is giving parents more control over their teen's use of AI on Instagram

Meta will add parental controls to its AI chatbot on Instagram, letting parents block characters, block access, and receive conversation summaries for teens.
fromTechCrunch
5 months ago

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot

OpenAI brings ChatGPT Go plan to 16 more Asian countries OpenAI is expanding its affordable ChatGPT Go plan, priced under $5, to 16 new countries across Asia, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Thailand, Vietnam, and Pakistan. In some of these countries, users can pay in local currencies, while in others, payments are required in USD, with final costs varying due to local taxes.
Artificial intelligence
#spotify
Artificial intelligence
fromArs Technica
5 months ago

OpenAI unveils "wellness" council; suicide prevention expert not included

OpenAI formed an Expert Council on Wellness and AI of eight specialists to guide ChatGPT mental health, child-safety improvements, focusing on youth development and safeguards.
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