Roblox recently clarified its age verification requirement for gamers who chat with strangers on the platform. Children will only be able to chat with other children, ...

Age verification and ID-based measures are increasingly implemented by tech companies like Apple and Google despite risks ...

Justin Patchin, criminal justice professor at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, on new age verification guidelines for ...

The rules will make it so kids and teens can only message people within a similar age group to their own. The moves come as ...

Dubai: For many children in the UAE, Roblox is less a game and more a social universe, a place where school-aged users build worlds, swap stories and spend hours immersed in user-generated experiences ...

Roblox has faced criticism for allowing youngsters to access inappropriate content and communicate with adults. In March, the ...

Hardly anyone can have missed the AI phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. Almost every major company has some kind of AI initiative now. Politicians talk about how important it is not to ...

The EU advances its new Chat Control plan as privacy experts warn it could enable backdoor scanning and threaten encrypted ...

The social media ban is coming, causing concern among parents and children as they grapple with a leaner online landscape.

As smartphones swallow childhood, a growing movement of parents is reinstalling landlines, hoping an old-school corded phone ...

As Australia counts down to its world-first social media ban for under-16s on December 10, four teens report back from a trial five-day break from the apps.

Roblox must also account for bad actors who try to use fake photos or pictures of another person to evade accurate age ...