The toy market includes digital devices that could become a gateway for attackers on the web, taking advantage of security gaps that are not easy to detect by parents or guardians.
Security measures such as passwords and locking systems on these digital toys are set by adults. However, there are…
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OpenAI’s Child Safety team ensures minors safety in the use of AI
OpenAI established a dedicated Child Safety team dedicated to addressing incidents related to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools by underage users. The main objective is to ensure that the company's technologies are not used to…
Google will automatically blur explicit images in search results
Google has started rolling out a new security-focused feature for some users that automatically blurs explicit images in search results by default.
Currently, the company has a filter called SafeSearch that serves to avoid all images that…
Minors spend about 4 hours a day on their screens
An investigation carried out by the Qustodio platform entitled 'From change to adaptation: living and learning in a digital world', determined that minors spend an average of 4 hours connected to screens outside the classroom, for a total…
Instagram will urge teens to take a break from social media
Instagram talked about the news it is working on to make its social network a more favorable place for teenage users, which will include notifications for them to take a break from the platform or ways to discourage them from watching…
China establishes a 40-minute limit of TikTok for children under 14 years old
ByteDance introduced a new mode in TikTok for users under 14 years of age with which, in addition to displaying educational content, it limits the time they can use the short video platform per day: a maximum of 40 minutes.
This is an…
Instagram will now ask for the date of birth
The social network Instagram will ask all its users to provide their date of birth in the coming weeks in order to offer its latest security features for minors, which will be necessary to continue using the service.
The platform began…
China cuts video game hours
China tightened its policy to combat video game addiction in its underage citizens and has reduced the amount of time they can play to up to three hours a week, with a maximum of one hour a day and only on weekends.
This is stated in a…
Instagram adds privacy by default to children’s accounts
Instagram announced changes to its platform to increase the security of younger users, which involve setting a new account as private by default and implementing a technology to stop unwanted interactions with adults.
The technology…
Law will restrict access to websites to minors in Chile
On Monday, it was learned that the Chamber of Deputies of Chile approved a bill that aims to regulate children's Internet access.
Those in charge of the approval were the members of the Science and Technology Commission, who assured that…
Cybersecurity experts warn about WhatsApp vulnerability
Different kind of crimes have recently proliferated in the famous application WhatsApp. There are groups in which pornographic videos of extreme crudeness are played, featuring children, also beheadings or aggressions against collectives,…