April 13 (UPI) --Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are considering more than a dozen bill proposals to protect children online and many approaches face free speech and privacy challenges. At least 19 bills ...

There was a time when parents could reasonably know where their children were, who they were speaking with, and what they ...

The last time Congress passed a major law protecting children on the internet was 1998. There were no smartphones. Social media as we know it did not exist. No child had ever confided in an AI chatbot ...

The EU's new EU Kids Act wants to protect minors from addictive platform designs. Critics warn that age-based protection alone may deepen exclusion for disabled users, migrants and the undocumented. V ...