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TikTok, YouTube, and Roblox face scrutiny, but age gates won’t fix child safety

| | children, Family and parenting, online ssafety, roblox, SBN News
Ofcom says TikTok and YouTube are "not safe enough" for children, but simply adding stricter age checks is not the answer ...
Malwarebytes

If a fake moustache can fool age checks, is the Online Safety Act working?

| | Age Verification, children, Family and parenting, online safety, OSA, Privacy, SBN News
A UK report finds some progress since the Act came into force, but widespread workarounds, ongoing harm, and unresolved privacy concerns suggest the impact is still limited ...
Malwarebytes

New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption

| | children, courts, encryption, Meta, social media, Uncategorized
Mike Masnick points out that the recent New Mexico court ruling against Meta has some bad implications for end-to-end encryption, and security in general: If the “design choices create liability” framework seems ...
Schneier on Security

Roblox gives predators “powerful tools” to target children, says LA County

| | age estimation, Age Verification, children, Family and parenting, game, gaming, lawsuit, los angeles, roblox, SBN News, video game
Los Angeles County sued the online gaming platform Roblox for its alleged failure to protect children from danger ...
Malwarebytes
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Trump’s TikTok Tarry — Yet Again, Ban-Can Kicked Down the Road

| | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, china, chinese government, disinformation, Donald Trump, Misinformation, online disinformation, President Donald Trump, president trump, Privacy, Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, SB Blogwatch, Social disinformation, social media, socialmedia, spyware, TACO, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Trump, Won’t somebody think of the children?
PAFACA Pause Persists: Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children? ...
Security Boulevard
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Trump U-Turn: TikTok’s On-Again/Off-Again U.S. Ban

| | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, china, chinese government, disinformation, Donald Trump, Misinformation, online disinformation, President Donald Trump, president trump, Privacy, Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, SB Blogwatch, Social disinformation, social media, socialmedia, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Trump, Won’t somebody think of the children?
Not For You: “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” shouldn’t be enforced, orders President Trump ...
Security Boulevard
“Oh, won’t somebody please think of the children?”

Digital Crack for Kids: TikTok Sued Again by 14 AGs

| | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?
For You Plague: TikTok’s in trouble once more—this time, some states complain it’s breaking laws by harvesting children’s data and keeping them addicted ...
Security Boulevard
TikTok Abuses Kids, say DoJ and FTC

TikTok Abuses Kids, say DoJ and FTC

| | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?
For You Plague: U.S. Justice Dept. and Federal Trade Commission file lawsuit, alleging TikTok broke the COPPA law, plus a previous injunction ...
Security Boulevard
Parental Consent for Social Media: Ohio's Controversial Law

Ohio’s New Social Media Law, Meta’s Link History Feature, 175 Million Passcode Guesses

| | Apple, brute-force attack, children, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, facebook, Information Security, Infosec, Instagram, iPhone, Link History, Meta, Ohio, Ohio Social Media Law, Ottawa, passcode, Passcodes, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, social media, technology, Teenagers, Weekly Edition
In episode 312, Tom and Scott discuss the implications of a new law in Ohio that may require parental consent for children under 16 using social media, including the pros and cons ...
Shared Security Podcast
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Meta Sued for Ignoring its Underage Kids Problem (Because Money)

| | child, child identity theft, child online privacy, Child Online Safety, Child protection, Child Safety, child security online, children, children online, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), children's privacy, Coppa, facebook, Instagram, Meta, online safety for children, Privacy, privacy children, Rights of Children, Safety Of Children, SB Blogwatch, Won’t somebody think of the children?
Don’t be square: Newly-unsealed COPPA suit says Zuck’s mob knows full well there are loads of users under the age of 13, but did nothing ...
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