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NPR
A historic new law would protect kids online and hold tech companies accountable
The new law would require tech companies to limit children’s exposure to dangerous online content. The last time Congress legislated on kids online safety was before social media and smartphones.
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Report
Advancing Standards for Youth Online Protection in India
Insights from a closed-door roundtable in New Delhi ahead of India’s first Trust & Safety Festival, with product, policy and ecosystem recommendations.
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Safety Is Sexy · Podcast
KOSPA and Youth Online Safety with Vaishnavi J
Duty of care, default privacy settings, data collection rules and the implementation challenges that follow.
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Tech Policy Press
How KOSPA may impact tech roadmaps at small and medium-sized companies
Vaishnavi J examines the potential impact of KOSPA on small and medium tech companies, from legal teams to product development.
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Tech Policy Press
Why is KOSA so popular and what does it mean for child safety regulation in the US?
Vaishnavi J asks, why is this the first piece of child safety legislation that has gained significant political and stakeholder support?
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Tech Policy Press
Red herrings to watch for at the Senate’s child safety hearing
Vaishnavi J details red herrings companies and policymakers might raise on January 31, and what they should be addressing instead.
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Rolling Stone
An AI nightmare has arrived for Twitter — and the FBI
Explicit computer-generated images of kids are popping up online, and no one knows how to stop them.
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Stopping explicit computer-generated images of kids online
Vaishnavi Jayakumar joins Lisa Dent to explain why parents should know about the dangers of their kids showing up in AI-generated photos, and what they can do about it.
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Socializing the Launch: A Checklist to Support Your Age Assurance Rollout
Seven areas to work through before an age assurance rollout, and a set of claims not to make.
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Inside the Launch: Product Design, Platform Power, and the New Rules of Governance
Platform governance driven by external policymakers and researchers is often disconnected from how companies actually decide about their products. Proposes a framework bridging the two.
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Quire
Read Quire, our biweekly newsletter where we examine how high-stakes decisions about kids’ and teens’ digital experiences actually get made as automated systems become part of the product stack, drawing on firsthand experience.
eSafety Commissioner
Designing for Safety: Preventing Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Online
A toolkit of five Safety by Design strategies, built from a workshop with the US Department of Homeland Security.
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Resolver
Critical Harm Intelligence Briefing: Weaponised Loneliness
How fragmented online subcultures escalate into coordinated harm against young people.
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5Rights Foundation
Children & AI Design Code
A lifecycle framework for the risks AI systems pose to children.
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Institute for Security and Technology
Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Cognition, Society, and the Future
A year-long collaboration closing with a 27-point research agenda.
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The Washington Post
Meta says its parental controls protect kids. But hardly anyone uses them.
Inside the company, kids safety experts have long raised red flags about relying on such features, citing infrequent use.
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New Scientist
US Congress grilled Big Tech leaders on child online safety
Executives from Meta, TikTok and X were questioned by US lawmakers about the safety of children who use their products — experts say the companies need to do more than just provide parental controls.
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Integrity Institute · Podcast
Trust In Tech: Child Safety on Online Platforms
Episode 36 of the Integrity Institute's member podcast, recorded ahead of the Senate child safety hearing.
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