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FYI: ACCC declines to probe marketplace sellers CHOICE flagged in complaint: Three children have died from button battery incidents in Australia as Treasury now leads reform of marketplace duties, injury reporting and penalty rules. https://ppc.land/accc-declines-to-probe-marketplace-sellers-choice-flagged-in-complaint/ #ACCC #ConsumerProtection #MarketplaceSafety #ButtonBatteries #ChildSafety

FYI: ACCC declines to probe marketplace sellers CHOICE flagged in complaint: Three children have died from button battery incidents in Australia as Treasury now leads reform of marketplace duties, injury reporting and penalty rules. https://ppc.land/accc-declines-to-probe-marketplace-sellers-choice-flagged-in-complaint/ #ACCC #ConsumerProtection #MarketplaceSafety #ButtonBatteries #ChildSafety

FYI: ACCC declines to probe marketplace sellers CHOICE flagged in complaint: Three children have died from button battery incidents in Australia as Treasury now leads reform of marketplace duties, injury reporting and penalty rules. https://ppc.land/accc-declines-to-probe-marketplace-sellers-choice-flagged-in-complaint/ #ACCC #ConsumerProtection #MarketplaceSafety #ButtonBatteries #ChildSafety

Public on-line vote · Clondalkin, Dublin, Ireland - deadline Friday 4 September
Support a 30 km/h speed limit for urban villages including Templeogue, Lucan, Tallaght, Newcastle, Rathcoole, Clondalkin, Saggart, Palmerstown, and Rathfarnham. A permanent speed limit of 30 km/h should be applied to roads in the vicinity of schools to create safe routes to schools.

https://votelf.com/v/11739

#Love30 #speedlimit #mastodaoine #IrishPol #cycling #walking #shools #childsafety #pedestrian #roadsafety

Meta Settles $18B Lawsuit With 29 States Over Child Safety

Meta agrees to pay up to $18 billion and adopt sweeping child-safety reforms to settle landmark lawsuit alleging it designed platforms to addict children

https://pulseofnations.lol/meta-settles-18b-lawsuit/

#ChildProtection #ChildSafety #Facebook #Instagram #Meta #Settlement #States #TechRegulation

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial

"Meta’s business can be boiled down to four words that begin with the letter H: hook, hold, harvest, hide, according to a lawyer who is prosecuting the world’s largest social media company.

The owner of Facebook and Instagram “hooks” in users, “holds” them on its platforms for as long as possible, “harvests” their data and then “hides” the truth from the public, she argued.

“Meta’s business model worked especially well for kids,” said Megan O’Neill, a lawyer for the state of California.

Her accusation opened the blockbuster trial against the US tech company on Tuesday in Oakland, California, just north of Meta’s headquarters in Silicon Valley. California has joined 28 other US states in suing the £1tn ($1.36tn) company for allegedly designing addictive products that lead to children being harmed."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/meta-trial-children-privacy

#ChildSafety #OnlineSafety #DataHarvesting #News #HumanRights #SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta #Activism

DATE: August 19, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT NEWS MENTAL HEALTH

TITLE: Opinion: I’m a pediatrician. AI chatbots are grooming my patients

URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/ai-chatbots-children-grooming-mental-health/?utm_campaign=rss

“Can we talk … in private?” The man was nervous, hands wringing like a little boy in trouble, though he was perhaps a decade older than I am.

A minute later, we were seated in the tiniest exam room, the one off in the corner that we try to never use. (I’ve re-created the conversation here to the best of my recollection.)

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URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/ai-chatbots-children-grooming-mental-health/?utm_campaign=rss

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Apple's 'Relax, it's iPhone' ad in Milan, showing a toddler with an iPhone, has sparked controversy in Italy. The children's rights authority is concerned about normalizing early digital exposure and has referred the matter to regulators. This highlights the need for ethical considerations in tech marketing, especially regarding children.

#Apple #iPhone #Advertising #ChildSafety #DigitalExposure #MarketingEthics

https://thedailytechfeed.com/apples-relax-its-iphone-ad-sparks-controversy-in-ita…

DATE: August 11, 2026 at 05:00AM
SOURCE:
NEW YORK TIMES PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGISTS FEED

TITLE: Should Letting Children Play Alone Outside Be a Crime?

URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/well/family/children-safety-independence-laws.html

Some parents have been surprised to find themselves in the legal system’s cross hairs.

URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/well/family/children-safety-independence-laws.html

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xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Grok’s “apology” xAI may be liable for Grok generating AI CSAM. https://s.faithcollapsing.com/zku7o#ai #ai-csam #child-safety #csam #elon-musk #grok #policy #twitter #x #xai

Ars Technica: Elon Musk’s X fined $380K over “serious” child safety concerns, watchdog says https://arstechnica.com/?p=1976283 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #childsexualabusematerials #childsafety #ElonMusk #Twitter #Policy #google #csam #X

Ars Technica: Elon Musk’s X fined $380K over “serious” child safety concerns, watchdog says https://arstechnica.com/?p=1976283 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #childsexualabusematerials #childsafety #ElonMusk #Twitter #Policy #google #csam #X

Ars Technica: Elon Musk’s X fined $380K over “serious” child safety concerns, watchdog says https://arstechnica.com/?p=1976283 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #childsexualabusematerials #childsafety #ElonMusk #Twitter #Policy #google #csam #X

Ars Technica: Elon Musk’s X fined $380K over “serious” child safety concerns, watchdog says https://arstechnica.com/?p=1976283 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #childsexualabusematerials #childsafety #ElonMusk #Twitter #Policy #google #csam #X

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