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Safety by co-design: How we can take youth online safety to the next level

Thu, 03 Oct 2024, 06:53 PM

Six years ago Prof. Gillian Hadfield at the University of Toronto wrote in QZ.com, “What we don’t hear nearly enough is the call to invent the future of regulation.” It seemed the insanely fast development pace of multiple kinds of tech was becoming almost too hot for regulators to touch. Hadfield proposed “super-regulation,” which she […]

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Much-less-social media on Facebook’s 20th birthday

Sun, 04 Feb 2024, 04:19 PM

Facebook turns 20 today, but the platform is nothing like what it was in 2004 – or, more comparably, in 2008, when it overtook MySpace, it was open to all (not just uni students) and it had the reputation of being a “safe space,” Forbes reports, because everyone had to sign up with their real […]

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What child online safety really needs, senators

Fri, 02 Feb 2024, 02:14 PM

It was the 2024 version of public shaming – relentless on-camera questioning designed to send a message rather than hear answers. It seemed the lawmakers already had their answers. I get their frustration that… social media platforms can’t just “install” the digital version of car seats and seat belts or create product labeling like on […]

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Welcome to 2024!

Mon, 01 Jan 2024, 11:42 PM

Happy New Year, dear readers! It was quite a year last year, eh? I’m sure that, like me, many of you are glad to move on. More on what we’re moving into in a moment, but first let’s use one of the biggest news stories (not just tech stories) of 2023 – generative AI – […]

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Supporting the youngest witnesses of this humanitarian crisis

Fri, 13 Oct 2023, 02:36 PM

Sometimes we parents feel so helpless when our children come to us hurting as much as us when they see something awful happening in the world. In her email letter to our community, my friend, colleague and fellow parent Michelle Lipkin wrote, when her 19-year-old daughter asked her to explain what’s going on, “I tried […]

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