Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 2K Studio/E+/GettyImages When it comes to their children, parents are right to be concerned about online safety while playing ...

Yesterday, OpenAI announced that it will be introducing new parental controls in ChatGPT within a month. The feature will allow parents to link their own accounts to those of their teenage children ...

Parental controls have been a major focus in January 2026, and YouTube is the latest platform to step in with new safety-focused updates. With YouTube Shorts evolving into a core product, kids are ...

In the digital world of today, children of all ages have access to vast amounts of information online, through websites, apps, and social media, all available on their handy, pocket-sized smartphones.

Parental controls are offered by almost every popular media network, but many parents aren’t aware of them. Fewer than 10% of teens on Instagram had enabled parental control settings by the end of ...

In January, chief executives of the top social media companies went before Congress to answer questions about online child exploitation. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, turned around during the hearing ...

Chromebooks are often used for education. It is a good idea to set parental controls to prevent kids from accessing inappropriate content or spending too much time on social media, which can affect ...

PC gaming tends to be a solitary affair, leaving the living room co-op to console players. Even so, Steam has offered some sharing and parental controls before, in features such as Family Sharing and ...

Meta has announced new supervision tools for parents to get insights and more control on their teens activity on platforms like Instagram and Facebook. It includes their kids interaction with AI ...

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Update, Wednesday October 1, 2025: Roblox has responded to the open letter written by three game industry advocacy groups stating its new parental controls and content descriptor "impacts very few ...