Senate Bill 2310 would prohibit students in kindergarten through fifth grade from accessing digital devices at school, prevent teachers from using digital devices to provide instruction and bar ...

A hundred days into the under-16 social media ban, the government is keeping quiet on numbers that would reveal how many children have carried on as normal.

Conversations around social media (and how kids use it) are only going to heat up in the coming months. Just this week, MPs voted against a social media ban for under-16s in the UK. The ban, which ...

Tech CEOs Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and others focus on creative tech use for kids rather than screen time limits. Short-form video is a worry.

The larger question behind these policy debates is who ultimately bears responsibility for protecting young users online.

New rules require the entire digital ecosystem to mirror physical world protections, ending the era of unregulated access to sexually explicit material.

A nationally representative Education Week survey found that 56 percent of educators believe that “off-task behavior on laptops, tablets, or desktops is a major source of distraction that cuts into ...

The measure advanced as part of broader legislation, though House Democrats contended it would leave a “giant loophole” for ...

New proposals would require stronger safeguards across digital platforms while placing age verification at center of effort ...

Brett Guthrie, a Republican from Kentucky, is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The most popular social media platforms are constantly changing and reinventing themselves, but one ...

New age-verification laws and tools are designed for child safety on social media and the internet, but adults are in the ...

For years, tech companies successfully resisted pressure from child safety advocates to do more to keep kids off their ...