#parental controls

[ follow ]
#kidnapping
#parental-controls
fromThe Verge
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

Discord now lets parents control who contacts their teens, but messages stay private

fromThe Verge
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

Discord now lets parents control who contacts their teens, but messages stay private

#ad-blocking
fromEngadget
1 week 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
1 week 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.
#ai-safety
fromMedium
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI and Meta Revamp Chatbot Safety Features for Teens in Distress

fromZDNET
4 months ago
Artificial intelligence

How OpenAI is reworking ChatGPT after landmark wrongful death lawsuit

fromMedium
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI and Meta Revamp Chatbot Safety Features for Teens in Distress

fromZDNET
4 months ago
Artificial intelligence

How OpenAI is reworking ChatGPT after landmark wrongful death lawsuit

Gadgets
fromFast Company
1 week 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
2 weeks 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 weeks 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
4 weeks 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
fromThe Verge
4 weeks ago
Gadgets

Google is getting ready to launch AI-powered notification summaries on more Android devices

fromThe Verge
4 weeks ago
Gadgets

Google is getting ready to launch AI-powered notification summaries on more Android devices

Gadgets
fromArs Technica
4 weeks 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.
Mobile UX
fromGSMArena.com
1 month ago

XploraOne by HMD is a hybrid phone for kids

HMD and Xplora launched XploraOne, a kid-focused hybrid phone offering calling, messaging, extensive parental controls, no third-party apps, cameras, physical SIM, and a headphone jack.
UK news
fromwww.standard.co.uk
1 month ago

Anti-terror police tell parents don't ignore Adolescence warnings on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Parents must set parental controls and actively monitor children's devices to prevent exposure to extremist, violent, and terrorist-related online content amid rising Prevent referrals.
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 month 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
#roblox
Privacy technologies
fromTechCrunch
1 month 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
2 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
2 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
2 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
#meta
fromFortune
2 months ago
Privacy technologies

With half of teens regularly turning to AI companions, Meta moves to add parental controls starting early next year | Fortune

fromFortune
2 months ago
Privacy technologies

With half of teens regularly turning to AI companions, Meta moves to add parental controls starting early next year | Fortune

Mobile UX
fromGSMArena.com
2 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
2 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
2 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.
Music
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Spotify rolls out controls to keep kids music out of your algorithm

Spotify launches managed child accounts for Premium Family subscribers to control kids' music, filter explicit content, and separate child listening from the main account.
#teen-safety
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Digital life

Instagram to show PG-13 content by default to teens, adds more parental controls | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
Digital life

Instagram to show PG-13 content by default to teens, adds more parental controls | TechCrunch

Parenting
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

How The Verge and our readers manage kids' screen time

Most parents set screen rules but vary widely in enforcement; token-based barter systems help families balance screen time with chores and other activities.
Parenting
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Apple is tightening App Store age restrictions in Texas. Here's what it means for parents.

Apple will require Texas users under 18 to join an adult-led Family Sharing group for app downloads and in-app purchases beginning January 1, 2026.
E-Commerce
fromZDNET
2 months ago

Grab the Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Pro at a new low price

Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Pro offers durable, kid-friendly features: two-year replacement, parental controls, 3GB RAM, 1080p display, long battery life, and expandable storage.
#child-safety
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
3 months ago

OpenAI says it's working to tell if a user is under 18 and will send them to an 'age-appropriate' ChatGPT

OpenAI will implement age-detection and parental controls for ChatGPT, prioritizing teen safety over privacy and freedom.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

ChatGPT may start alerting authorities about youngsters considering suicide, says CEO

Sam Altman raised fears that as many as 1,500 people a week could be discussing taking their own lives with the chatbot before doing so. The chief executive of San Francisco-based OpenAI, which operates the chatbot with an estimated 700 million global users, said the decision to train the system so the authorities were alerted in such emergencies was not yet final.
Artificial intelligence
fromEngadget
3 months ago

Sony is rolling out a PlayStation parental controls mobile app

Sony is finally catching up to something Nintendo and Microsoft have had for years. The new PlayStation Family app mainly serves as a mobile extension of on-console parental controls. However, parents also get a few extra perks in the mobile version. The app includes a "thoughtfully guided" onboarding process. (I imagine many people will prefer their phone or tablet over the console for that.) Once things are set up, parents can do everything they already could on the console.
Gadgets
#openai
fromZDNET
4 months ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI increases ChatGPT user protections following wrongful death lawsuit

fromZDNET
4 months ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI increases ChatGPT user protections following wrongful death lawsuit

Parenting
fromFatherly
5 months ago

5 Things You Need To Know About Keeping Your Kid Safe Online

Children need supervised, limited Internet access and parental controls to protect them from cyberbullying, phishing, scams, and inappropriate content.
fromThe Verge
3 months ago

TCL gives parents a monochrome mode to combat kids' phone addiction

Like other recent Nxtpaper phones, the key selling point is a dedicated button that activates Max Ink Mode, which switches the matte display to a monochromatic mode that looks a lot like E Ink and is easier on the eyes for reading. The appeal to parents will be an extra way to manage screentime: not just a binary on / off, but an in-between option that's better for kids' eyes and not particularly well-suited to playing Fortnite. It extends the device's battery life, too.
Gadgets
Digital life
fromDaily Mom magazine
3 months ago

Navigating Parenting In A Digital Age: Tips For Parents Raising A Kids Online

Parents must balance technology benefits with safety, screen-time limits, and digital citizenship education to raise responsible children in a pervasive digital environment.
fromBusiness Insider
4 months ago

Tin Can is a 'landline' for kids. It comes as more parents are trying to keep their kids from cellphones.

It's important for kids to have social autonomy,
Gadgets
Gadgets
fromZDNET
4 months ago

Miss your landline? Verizon's new Family Line lets 5 phones share one number

Verizon Family Line provides a single shared mobile number usable on up to five smartphones via the Family Plus add-on for $10/month.
Privacy technologies
fromThe Mercury News
4 months ago

Larry Magid: What you need to know about Instagram's friend map

Instagram Map is an opt-in feature that shares last active location with chosen friends, shows tagged locations for 24 hours, and includes multiple privacy and parental controls.
Books
fromWIRED
4 months ago

Meet the Kindle Kids Will Want Most

Kids mode offers age-based recommendations, PIN-protected child profiles, parent-approved Store requests, and color Kindles enhance illustrated book experiences for developing readers.
Gadgets
fromFast Company
4 months ago

Landline phones are back-and they're helping kids connect safely with friends

Redesigned corded VoIP phones let children safely arrange calls and playdates without smartphones, offering parental controls, unique five-digit codes, and no monthly fees.
[ Load more ]