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Keeping children safe in a rapidly changing digital landscape
The Hill via Yahoo News· 6 months agoTwenty years after starting as an intern at an organization to help create a safe media environment...
School removes mirrors from bathrooms to keep kids off social media
Newsy via AOL· 4 months agoMultiple young people on their cellphones. A school in North Carolina recently removed its bathroom...
Meta to hide posts about suicide, eating disorders from teens' Instagram and Facebook feeds
Euronews via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMeta said on Tuesday it will start hiding inappropriate content from teenagers' accounts on...
FTC urged to investigate anonymous messaging app
KREX articles via Yahoo News· 8 months ago(The Hill) — Fairplay, a children’s online safety advocacy group, asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday to investigate an anonymous...
Report: TikTok Boosts Posts About Eating Disorders, Suicide
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTikTok’s algorithms are promoting videos about self-harm and eating disorders to vulnerable teens,...
White House raises alarm on risks of social media for kids
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe White House and the U.S. Surgeon General warned on Tuesday that social media poses mental health...
TikTok used to show mental health content on tobacco-related searches. Now these searches return...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoTikTok once showed mental wellness content to users who searched for tobacco-related terms. TikTok...
Amazon saved children's voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now...
Business Insider via Yahoo Finance· 11 months agoAn Amazon Alexa deviceShutterstock Amazon has agreed to change how it handles children's data...
Congress is targeting social media to protect kids' mental health. Some aren't sure about the push.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIn a polarized Congress, a rare bipartisan accord is being forged to protect young people's mental...
Abortion rights vs Big Tech: A major privacy win against “corporate surveillance”
Salon via Yahoo News· 5 months agoLina Khan Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images In a significant victory for the privacy of people seeking...