Kids in the UK are doodling mustaches on their faces to sneak past digital bouncers. A fresh report from Internet Matters reveals the absurdity. Nearly half of surveyed children...
Roblox Corp. posted robust financial gains in the first quarter of 2026, yet its shares cratered more than 20% in after-hours trading Thursday. Revenue climbed 39% year-over-...
Andy Yen doesn't mince words. The Proton CEO warns that age verification mandates sweeping U.S. states will transform the internet into a vast ID checkpoint. Adults everywher...
Greece just did what a growing number of Western democracies have been threatening to do for years. It banned children under 15 from social media entirely.Prime Minist...
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers vetoed an age verification bill on Friday, making his state one of the few to explicitly reject the wave of legislation sweeping the country tha...
The Debian Project — one of the oldest and most influential Linux distributions in the world — is wrestling with a question it never expected to face: whether a volunteer-run...
OpenAI wants to protect your kids. So does Meta. So does every major technology company that has lately discovered a passion for child safety — right around the time lawmaker...
A privacy-focused mobile operating system, built by a small team with no corporate parent, is quietly proposing what might be the most elegant solution yet to one of the inte...
Every few months, another state legislature drafts a bill demanding that apps and websites verify the age of their users. The proposals arrive with earnest language about pro...
Bill Ready, the chief executive of Pinterest, isn't known for making waves in Washington. His platform — a digital pinboard for recipes, home décor ideas, and wedding inspira...
Indonesia just drew a hard line. The country announced a social media ban for anyone under 16 years old, joining a growing wave of governments worldwide that are deciding tec...
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has been one of the most debated pieces of tech legislation in years, and it finally went to a Senate vote in mid-2024 with overwhelming bip...
A growing coalition of computer scientists, privacy researchers, and security experts has signed an open letter opposing age verification mandates, some of which are scheduled to t...
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