Evolving global regulations aimed at limiting child access to harmful content, as well as incidents and lawsuits related to youth safety online , have prompted Roblox to revise how it handles accounts for minors and verifies users' ages. …
… As part of that investigation, the Commission said that a “very high percentage” of electronic device chargers purchased by mystery shoppers failed basic safety tests and found that a high percentage of tested baby toys posed safety risks, reporting that they exceeded the legal limits for certain c… …
… On the AI Impact Summit’s child safety panel, Chris Lehane of OpenAI said , “This is not social media and we should not make the classic mistake of fighting the last war with the next war.” But a lot of the harms for children are similar — exposure to inappropriate content, misinformation, privacy … …
… The company emphasized a few key principles in its presentation of the new child safety features: that parents should be the ones to decide what their kids have access to, that Apple’s recommendations will be shaped by expert research that balances risks and benefits of technology for kids, and tha… …
… While no system is perfect, our commitment to safety never ends, and we will continue to collaborate closely with eSafety on our shared goal of keeping Australian children safe." Meanwhile, Cat McCormack - senior communications manager at Epic Games - stated that the publisher's rules "prohibit ext… …
… Apple will continue innovating to meet the evolving risks to kids’ safety online by building on the powerful tools and features it makes available today — like child accounts, web content filters, app restrictions, monitoring tools like Screen Time and Family Sharing, Communication Safety, and Comm… …
… Central to the MOU is a commitment to work with Australia’s AI Safety Institute. We will share our findings on emerging model capabilities and risks, participate in joint safety and security evaluations, and collaborate on research with Australian academic institutions. …
… VPNs themselves can create privacy and security problems. “The VPNs that children are incentivized to use pose privacy and security risks. …
… If parents prefer to finish setting up their kid’s account at a later time, child-appropriate default settings will still be enabled on the device. This helps assure parents that child safety settings will be active from the time their child begins using a device. …
… The Trusted Contact feature follows the safeguards the company introduced last September that gave parents the power to have some oversight of their teens’ accounts, including receiving safety notifications designed to alert the parent if OpenAI’s system believes their child is facing a “serious sa… …
