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Europe's EU Kids Act would ban social media access for children under 13 (engadget.com)

2026-09-17 | by Steve Dent | get Amazon Fire HD Kids Tablet parental controls → | tags: eu kids act, social media ban, european commission

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The EU Wants to Break Up Kids and Their Chatbots (wired.com)

2026-09-17 | by Isabella Ward | tags: eu kids act, chatbots, ai companions

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EU chief confronts Big Tech with a bloc-wide proposal to protect kids from social media (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-16 | get Bark parental control monitoring service kids phone → | tags: ursula von der leyen, european commission, social media ban

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The EU Bans Social Media For Under-13s (wired.com)

2026-09-16 | by Isabella Ward | get Bark parental control monitoring device → | tags: eu kids act, ursula von der leyen, social media ban

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Australians Could Soon Opt Out of Social Media Algorithms Altogether (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-08 | get Stolen Focus Johann Hari book → | tags: australia, social media algorithms, teen social media ban

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What You Can Do to Protect Your Family From Sextortion (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-09-08 | tags: sextortion, online safety, teens

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New law to force tech firms to stop children taking or sharing nude images (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-09-08 | get Fire HD 10 Kids tablet → | tags: apple, google, lisa nandy

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Legal experts say Meta's settlement puts YouTube, TikTok and Snap on notice (engadget.com)

2026-08-27 | by Karissa Bell | get Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids tablet parental controls → | tags: meta, youtube, tiktok

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What the Meta settlement means for the UK, and other questions after the deal (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-27 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | get Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids tablet → | tags: meta, online safety act, facebook

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What does the Meta settlement mean for the UK? Five things we learned (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-27 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | get Circle Home Plus parental controls device → | tags: meta, online safety act, facebook

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How Facebook and Instagram will change after Meta's $18B settlement - and where the money is going (zdnet.com)

2026-08-27 | by Artie Beaty | get Circle Home Plus parental control device → | tags: meta, facebook, instagram

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How Meta's $18B settlement will change Facebook and Instagram - and where the money is going (zdnet.com)

2026-08-27 | by Artie Beaty | get The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt book → | tags: meta, facebook, instagram

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UK minister urges social media firms to remove dangerous driving videos (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-24 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | get Nextbase dash cam → | tags: social media, dangerous driving, tiktok

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Roblox must make changes after failing to block adults creeping on kids (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: roblox, esafety, online safety

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Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: internet, digital id, age verification

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AI minister role boosted but tech department axed in Burnham shake-up (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-07-21 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: ai minister, dsit, keir starmer

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Ofcom unable to take further legal action against suicide forum (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-07-20 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: ofcom, online safety act, vpn

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The Future of Age Verification: Your Face Never Leaves Your Device (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: incode technologies, facial age estimation, online safety act

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Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-13 | tags: category, foundation, ofcom

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The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | by Joe Mullin | get Parental Control Internet Router → | tags: kids online safety act, age verification, encrypted communications

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Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | get VPN Router for UK → | tags: uk government, online safety policy, vpn

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Meta Lobbies Congress For Protection From Child-Harm Lawsuits (slashdot.org)

2026-06-19 | get Meta Protect Kids Kit → | tags: meta, instagram, kids online safety act

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Meta wants a child safety bill rewritten to shield it from lawsuits over harm to kids (techspot.com)

2026-06-19 | by Skye Jacobs | get Parental Control Smartphone App → | tags: meta, kids online safety act, facebook

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Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation (theverge.com)

2026-06-15 | by Tina Nguyen | get AI Regulation Guidebook → | tags: big tech, ai regulation, chatgpt

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Signal attacks UK plan to scan devices for nude images as "mass surveillance" (techspot.com)

2026-06-10 | by Rob Thubron | get Signal Privacy App → | tags: apple, device, online

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Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over the future of online safety (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-21 | by Eileen Guo | get Cybersecurity Awareness Kit → | tags: trump administration, knight first amendment institute, immigration law

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Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-17 | by .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow | get NordVPN - Cybersecurity & Privacy → | tags: vpn, mozilla, uk online safety act

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Fears grow that age verification coming to VPNs as a British research firm labels them a 'loophole' — one app developer saw downloads surge by 1,800% in just the first month after the UK's Online Safety Act took effect (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-09 | by Luke James | get VPN Age Verification Tool → | tags: vpn, online safety act, proton

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EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-09 | by Alex Lekander | get VPN Privacy Protector → | tags: vpn, age verification, european parliament

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Operation Fake Mustache: Kids Bypass UK's Digital Age Barriers (cnet.com)

2026-05-07 | by See Full Bio | get Kids' Privacy Protection Software → | tags: uk online safety act 2023, internet matters, facial age-estimation