Google has been accused of “grooming” children for profit by emailing under-13s telling them how to turn off parental controls on their next birthday.

Parents looking to clamp down and supervise their children's viewing habits can do so with Amazon Fire TV, with convenient ...

About one in five teens say they are on platforms like YouTube and TikTok almost "constantly," a Pew Research Center Survey found last month, with YouTube standing out as something used by nearly all ...

Parents worry about toxic social media and their children accessing inappropriate content but they are not powerless in limiting access ...

Teens will now need to get explicit permission to remove a parental supervision setting.

SOCIAL media can help kids keep in touch and learn in a fun way – but it also exposes them to almost endless dangers. With so ...

Google says it is ending its practice of emailing 13-year-olds step-by-step instructions on how to remove parental controls ...

A Florida dad couldn’t work out how his son was getting around the parental controls on their Apple Siri virtual assistant, until he saw him doing one thing. Father-of-four Roberto Perez, a ...

YouTube is expanding parental controls to give parents more say over how their teen children use the platform. The Google-owned service now allows parents to set limits on the amount of time teens ...

YouTube Shorts Feed Time Limit feature has been introduced by the video streaming platform alongside other features that “will help parents tailor their family’s YouTube experience, especially for ...

The most notable addition is a parental control for YouTube Shorts scrolling time. YouTube has introduced a suite of new features aimed at allowing parents to better manage their teens’ viewing habits ...