Child Safety

Saudi Arabia’s Attorney General Khalid Al-Yousef represented the Kingdom at the 24th Meeting of Prosecutors General in Kazan, Russia Saudi Arabia’s Attorney General and Chairman of the Public Prosecution Council Khalid Al-Yousef represented the Kingdom at the 24th Meeting of the Prosecutors General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s Member States, in Kazan, Russia. The meeting, …

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Meta says it will begin reporting child safety cases directly to Indian authorities, following a BBC Eye investigation into paid advertisements promoting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on its platforms. The investigation, published in July, found that Instagram was running paid adverts promoting such material in India. The findings prompted the Indian government to order Meta to …

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Removing addictive features could be one work around  When I joined Facebook in 2009, I believed in the mission that founder Mark Zuckerberg espoused: to connect and empower people around the world. We all know how that turned out. Meta, now the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is focused on generating as much …

Social-media age bans won’t make children safer — but this will Read More »

In a bid to crack down on harmful activities, the model – which is designed with young people in mind – aims to limit access to controversial topics such as self-harm and sexual content. In response to growing concerns over the protection of vulnerable people online, OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT model designed specifically …

OpenAI launches teen ChatGPT amid calls for greater child safety Read More »

Lorena Giuberti Coutinho is a commissioner at Brazil’s National Data Protection Agency (ANPD) and a Professor at IDP in Brasília. She previously worked as an economist at the OECD and contributed to the initial phase of research behind Growing Up in the Social Media Age. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own …

Brazil’s Child Online Safety Law Offers a Different Path Than Social Media Bans Read More »