New York is pushing a new package of proposals aimed at keeping children and teens safer online as social media, gaming platforms and AI tools continue to expand their reach. Gov. Kathy Hochul ...

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The Wikimedia Foundation, hosts of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is challenging an aspect of the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA). The law aims to protect users from harmful online ...

Congress is ramping up action on online child-safety legislation. With two major age-verification bills recently marked up in subcommittee, lawmakers face an important choice about how to protect kids ...

Reaction to the Online Safety Act has been deeply divided, with many Independent readers voicing fears that the new legislation will do little to protect children while posing a significant threat to ...

The ruling "does not give Ofcom and the secretary of state a green light to implement a regime that would significantly impede Wikipedia’s operations." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Downloads of VPNs have exploded across Britain since age checks were introduced for pornography and other age-restricted websites last week. VPN apps have soared to the top of Apple’s download charts ...

The Ombudsman for Children’s Office will tell the Oireachtas Children’s Committee the current legal framework to hold tech ...

The world’s largest pornography website is to block millions of adults in the UK to protest against Labour’s Online Safety ...

The United Arab Emirates has issued a federal decree-law aimed at tightening online protections for children, setting out new duties for internet service providers, digital platforms and caregivers as ...