New age-verification laws and tools are designed for child safety on social media and the internet, but adults are in the ...

Recent bipartisan privacy and online safety initiatives reflect growing concern over youth mental health, online exploitation, and manipulative digital design. Our ...

Regulators are intensifying efforts to address the complex challenges of protecting children’s privacy and safety in an increasingly digital world. As experts warn of the psychological and ...

What You Need to Know Bipartisan efforts to expand COPPA and other attempts at federal legislation to address online and data privacy for users under the age of 18 have repeatedly stalled in the past ...

The Federal Trade Commission is encouraging companies to adopt age verification technologies by announcing it will not ...

In 1998, the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act became law. COPPA was designed with the future of the Internet in mind. Dotcoms were fast on their way to ...

In the last few years, a wave of state-level data privacy laws has swept across the United States. What started with California’s landmark Consumer Privacy Act has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.K.'s Online Safety Act took effect last Friday, putting age gates on content deemed unsuitable for minors, including ...

The internet has transformed nearly every corner of our lives. Commerce, communication, education, and civic participation have all flourished in the digital age. But while we’ve embraced these ...