Google has started testing new age assurance technology in the US to better protect underage users. The system uses machine ...

Google says its machine learning (ML) tool will look at the searches made by the user and videos watched on YouTube.

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The UK's Online Safety Act comes into force today, marking a shift in internet culture that is being felt around the world.

Meta is rolling out stricter safety settings for child-focused Instagram accounts and new teen DM tools amid intense ...

As Swahili becomes a lingua franca for the age of AI, African states must ask: are we digital users, or digital custodians?

Roblox will let people make “Trusted Connections” to chat more freely, but will require that they use a new age estimation tool to verify that they’re over 13.

Roblox announced the start of age-verification technology Thursday for users who want to chat more freely on the social-gaming platform as part of its new "trusted connections" feature.