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Meta is expanding Instagram’s AI-powered age detection worldwide to identify users aged 13 to 17, even when they provide an adult birth date. Suspected teen accounts will receive stricter privacy, messaging and content protections.
Apple is introducing stricter age-rating requirements for dating apps and AI companions featuring romantic or sexual interactions. Developers must begin declaring these features on Nov. 16…
Apple has strengthened its App Store guidelines to address AI-generated intimate imagery and apps that conceal harmful features during review. Developers face removal and possible account…
New York alleges that TikTok tested nonfunctional safety tools on thousands of users, including children and teens, without changing their video recommendations.
Meta is deploying new AI tools to detect ads that covertly direct users to child sexual abuse material and identify accounts trying to evade enforcement.
Truecaller has launched Scam Checker, a free web tool that checks suspicious links, numbers and messages as the company expands beyond caller ID.
TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million and add stricter teen safeguards under a settlement over allegations involving child safety and addictive design.
Discord begins rolling out age verification measures, using account signals and optional checks to separate teen and adult experiences.
Discord is rolling out a new age-assurance system that estimates users’ age groups based on account signals, while limiting manual verification for most users.
TikTok’s U.S. unit joins Lantern, a cross-platform safety program helping technology companies share signals to fight child exploitation.
Instagram will reduce the reach of undisclosed AI-generated profiles and replace its AI creator label with clearer AI-generated profile disclosures.
Meta will introduce new teen safety controls on Facebook and Instagram after an $18 billion settlement with 29 U.S. states.
