Few would hand their teenage child the car keys without guidance, but today's youth are often allowed to use the platforms ...

Lawmakers looking to protect kids from the harms of social media are considering new proposals and approaches this Congress ...

A bipartisan Senate bill to ban social media access for kids younger than 13 is facing pushback from digital rights and tech ...

A bill that would require some Oklahoma teenagers to get permission to have a social media account passed through committee ...

Safer Internet Day is an annual event celebrated worldwide to promote the safe, responsible, and positive use of digital ...

In 1998, long before the age of Instagram or TikTok, the federal government set a minimal baseline for internet safety for ...

Marko Elez, a software engineer working on Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting initiative, resigned after past racist social ...

The controversy around DeepSeek’s privacy issues lands squarely within the ... Trump issuing an executive order to restore the social media app’s services within hours (for now).

As TikTok faces potential bans, Gen Z users voice their concerns about privacy, misinformation, and the need for better regulations.

New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) led a group of 12 civil rights, ...

DeepSeek’s surprise superstardom has ignited a firestorm of data concerns globally, with regulators and privacy experts ...

A group of influential senators are renewing efforts to ban children under 13 from social media and prohibit platforms from ...