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Children is used for articles addressing privacy, artificial intelligence, online safety, and technology issues affecting children and minors. The tag covers children’s data, parental consent, age assurance, targeted advertising, AI and chatbot interactions, online platforms, and laws and regulatory developments designed to provide heightened protections for younger users.

Nebraska’s Age-Appropriate Online Design Code: Privacy, Parental Controls, and Safer Defaults for Users Under 18

Nebraska’s Age-Appropriate Online Design Code: Privacy, Parental Controls, and Safer Defaults for Users Under 18

Nebraska’s design code protects known users under 18 through data limits, safer defaults, parental tools, and restrictions on profiling, targeted ads, and engagement features—with penalties up to $50,000.

Eight States Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT’s Safety, Design, and Use of Children’s Data

Eight States Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT’s Safety, Design, and Use of Children’s Data

Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged harms to children, challenging safety claims, design choices, and data practices—and seeking penalties, data deletion, and limits on advanced AI testing.

California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Gets a Rewrite: New Privacy Rules for Users Under 18

California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Gets a Rewrite: New Privacy Rules for Users Under 18

California’s rewritten Age-Appropriate Design Code sets privacy defaults, age assurance, data limits, and design safeguards for online services likely to be accessed by children under 18.

California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (DAA): Moving Age Verification to the Device

California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (DAA): Moving Age Verification to the Device

California’s Digital Age Assurance Act creates an age-signal framework in which operating systems and app stores provide standardized age brackets to application developers, allowing apps to identify child users without independently collecting more information than necessary.

Prohibited AI Practices Under the EU AI Act: Non Consensual Intimate Material and Child Sexual Abuse

Prohibited AI Practices Under the EU AI Act: Non Consensual Intimate Material and Child Sexual Abuse

The EU AI Act’s new prohibitions target AI-generated intimate material without consent and child sexual abuse material. Explore their scope, provider safeguards, deployer duties and limited exceptions

California’s Adam’s Law: Building Child Safety Into AI Companion Chatbots

California’s Adam’s Law: Building Child Safety Into AI Companion Chatbots

California’s Adam’s Law regulates AI companion chatbots used by children, requiring age assurance, risk assessments, protective defaults, parental controls, crisis protocols, limits on relational behaviors, data and advertising restrictions, usability testing, and independent audits.

Nebraska’s Conversational AI Safety Act: New Rules for Chatbots, Minors, and AI Safety

Nebraska’s Conversational AI Safety Act: New Rules for Chatbots, Minors, and AI Safety

Nebraska’s Conversational AI Safety Act regulates certain public-facing AI services, imposing transparency requirements, heightened protections for minors, self-harm response protocols, and other safeguards. The Act’s key provisions become operative July 1, 2027.