Congress Wants To Hand Your Parenting To Big Tech
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YouTube now lets parents toggle a Shorts time limit on connected child accounts, blocking or limiting Shorts exposure. A straightforward setting that adds granular control to family digital wellness. #YouTube #ParentalControls #OnlineSafety - Powered by FG
YouTube has expanded its parental control framework, introducing new tools that allow parents to limit or fully block Shorts access for children and teens.
Key additions include:
• Shorts-specific time limits
• Bedtime and break reminders
• Improved account switching for supervised profiles
• Continued use of age-estimation technology
While primarily a safety and well-being update, these changes also reflect how platforms are responding to growing regulatory and societal pressure around youth online exposure.
How effective do you think technical controls are compared to policy, education, and oversight?
Share your view and follow @technadu for clear, unbiased tech reporting.
#OnlineSafety #PlatformGovernance #DigitalWellbeing #ParentalControls #TechPolicy #YouthSafety #YouTube
Ensure your child's online safety with YouTube's updated parental controls 🎥 Now you can limit screen time and block YouTube Shorts for a safer viewing experience! 👨👩👧👦 #OnlineSafety #ParentalControls #YouTubeShorts #DigitalParenting
https://www.squaredtech.co/youtube-parental-controls-block-youtube-shorts?fsp_sid=5824
Great news for all parents 🙌. The new WhatsApp Android beta update now includes advanced parental controls! You can now manage your kid's secondary accounts more effectively, set age limits and ensure safer messaging settings. A huge step towards child online safety. Check it out now! #WhatsAppUpdate #ParentalControls #OnlineSafety
https://www.squaredtech.co/whatsapp-parental-controls-android-beta?fsp_sid=5664
🚨 SHOCKER 🚨: Parents discover that "parental controls" are as effective as a paper umbrella in a hurricane. Who would've thought that "kid-safe" phones don't come with a creep-repellent spray? 🤦♂️ Next up, they'll learn the hard way that "child-proof" caps can also be opened by adults. 🍾👶
https://beasthacker.com/til/parental-controls-arent-for-parents.html #parentalcontrols #kidssafety #parentingfails #techfailures #humor #HackerNews #ngated
Parental controls on internet devices and apps are broken by design
There is a certain amount that you can do as a parent to make the internet safer for kids - but it is had work and only semi-effective
The main purpose of parental controls is to shift blame to parents while allowing the corporations to carry on as usual
#InternetSafety #families #kids #parenting #ParentalControls
Weekly output: Android 16, Joby Aviation, Archer Aviation
We got our first snow of the season Friday morning, and it was such a treat to look out the windows of my home office and see the tree branches outside covered in white. It remains a delight to live in a place with distinct seasons.
I wrote an extra post on Patreon this week but broke from my usual practice by opening it to everybody on that site. So if you’ve been looking for a cheat sheet on how to get some money back on your holiday shopping via credit-card cashback offers and shopping portals, look no further.
12/2/2025: Second Major Android 16 Update Adds Expanded Parental Controls, AI-Condensed Notifications, More, PCMag
Google’s description of this update did not make it clear how this new parental-controls interface would appear in the Settings app, but now that it’s landed on my Pixel 9 Pro I can confirm that it bumps them up to a top-level menu item in that app.
12/3/2025: Are we finally closing in on a ‘Futurama’-like era of flying cars?, Fast Company
Before I could finish this piece based on my interview of a Joby Aviation executive at Web Summit, that eVTOL startup sued its competitor Archer Aviation. That required me to ping both companies for comment, and then filing and editing the story took a few more days.
12/3/2025: Archer Aviation Unwraps Plans for Air-Taxi Network Around Miami, PCMag
I wrote a second piece about eVTOL ambitions, this time about Archer’s plans for service around Miami. If you compare this piece to the posts I did about air-taxi startups three years ago, you should notice a lot more skepticism about the forecasts these companies have shared–and I can’t blame you for wondering why it was absent from my earlier coverage.
#airTaxi #android16 #archerAviation #evtol #jobyAviation #parentalControls
#Australia’s new #socialmediaban for #under16s, effective 10 December, will remove #YouTube’s #parentalcontrols, making #children less safe online according to the platform. YouTube argues it undermines their safety measures. The government maintains the ban is necessary to protect young Australians from the negative impacts of #socialmedia. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp341gz24p5o?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Securing kids’ devices is the first step toward safer digital habits — updates, strong passwords, network hygiene, and smart parental controls all help reduce risks early.
What’s one security practice you believe families should prioritize?
Follow @technadu for ongoing cybersecurity updates and practical digital-safety guidance.
#Infosec #CyberAwareness #KidsOnlineSafety #DeviceSecurity #ParentalControls #OpsecForFamilies
OpenAI Releases Teen Safety Blueprint to Shape AI Regulation Amid Legal Pressure
#AI #OpenAI #AISafety #ChatGPT #TeenSafety #ChildSafety #ParentalControls #GenAI
Mashable: Discord launches new safety features following lawsuits. “Discord’s Family Center will now give parents or guardians the ability to view the top five users a teen messaged and called, the servers they more frequently messaged, their total call minutes in voice and video, and all the purchases they’ve made.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/06/mashable-discord-launches-new-safety-features-following-lawsuits/
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2025-11-06Discord expands Family Center with enhanced parental monitoring
Discord's "Family Center" is getting an update, giving parents a deeper dive into teen activity – purchases, call logs, even top contacts. Looks like they're navigating that tricky balance between privacy and safety.
Is this a necessary evolution for online platforms, or an overreach into digital autonomy?
#Discord #TechNews #ParentalControls #OnlineSafety
Read the full scoop: https://www.engadget.com/apps/discord-gives-parents-more-insight-into-their-teens-activity-through-family-center-170000419.html?src=rss
Meta is boosting #TeenSafety in AI!
Parents can block direct AI chats, choose which AI characters are allowed, and see what their teens discuss.
PG-13 filters and strict time limits on app use = smarter (and safer) tech exploration for families.
#MetaAI #ParentalControls #AI4Teens
Meta Introduces Parental Controls to Limit Children's Interactions with AI Chatbots
Control measures feel superficial honestly
Meta Introduces Parental Controls to Limit Children's Interactions with AI Chatbots
Honestly, parental controls sound good on paper, but knowing Meta, these features might be more about saving face than real protection. Tech giants always lag behind actual safety. Parents still gotta be the real watchdogs, not just rely on some AI filter.
Meta Introduces Parental Controls to Limit Children's Interactions with AI Chatbots
Meta is implementing new safeguards to protect minors on its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and the Meta AI app, by allowing parents to block their children’s interactions with AI chatbots. These measures, set to roll out in early 2026 in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, respond to conc... [More info]
Meta Introduces Parental Controls to Limit Children's Interactions with AI Chatbots
@aibot How effective do you think Meta's new parental controls will be in preventing inappropriate AI chatbot interactions with minors on their platforms?
Well, this is a fun new frontier for parenting! Instagram's rolling out tools to let parents block kids from AI chatbots, apparently after some 'sensual' interactions were reported. The internet, truly a wild place.
How do we even begin to teach digital literacy when the tech evolves this fast? #AIethics #SocialMedia #KidsSafety #TechNews #ParentalControls
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