Not all screen time is created equal, and how kids spend it, whether creatively or passively, can make all the difference. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, in 2022, 21.6% of ...

Online can be a dangerous place for kids. Explicit content, predators, and harassment and bullying are just some of the dangers that kids can be exposed to. But with a bit of know-how, the internet ...

Even though you can never make it completely safe, there are things you can do to increase the security of the Internet for your kids. Nowadays, it’s impossible to keep your kids off the Internet, ...

Legislation is being fast-tracked to better protect children’s online privacy and force black box social media warnings to be posted on platforms ...

For Safer Internet Day, a Texas safety expert explains why education and communication are better tools than bans for keeping ...

Whether it’s TikTok or Instagram or Snapchat or some yet-to-be-released app sure to enrapture its users, it’s pretty clear — to us, at least — that too many young people are now spending too much of ...

To protect kids, companies with large amounts of young users must move beyond quick fixes and design digital spaces where safe gaming is built into the core. For today’s kids, the playground is not ...

In an era when online misinformation is seemingly everywhere and objective facts are often in dispute, UC Berkeley psychologists in a new study have presented a somewhat paradoxical partial solution: ...

The internet, first developed in the late 1960s as ARPANET for secure military communication, evolved rapidly into a global public network by the 1990s. Today, children are introduced to digital ...

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. One thing being a parent has taught me is that you have to ...