A former volunteer firefighter with the Chili Fire Department was arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of children and producing child porn.Court documents say Vincent Steiner sent explicit ...

Roblox will start enforcing age checks in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands in December and the rest of the world in early January.

How’s that? A study published in the journal Pediatrics this week found children under 12 who had smartphones faced a higher risk of depression, obesity, and sleep deprivation. And the younger a child ...

Russia has blocked Apple's video-calling app FaceTime, the state communications watchdog said Thursday, just a day after ...

Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Association for Information Science and Technology.

Australian teenagers under 16 are set to face a world-first social media ban from 10 December.

Task-based games typically require players to complete a series of escalating challenges—sometimes involving self-harm or ...

A Cuyahoga County family has sued Roblox, the popular online gaming platform used by millions of children, alleging it failed to protect users from sexual predators and sexually explicit content.

Justin Patchin, criminal justice professor at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, on new age verification guidelines for the online gaming platform Roblox, and tips for parents to protect their ...

Teenagers are generally obsessed with their smartphones. So much so that Kristin Hatling’s family recently encountered a gaggle of them who had brought their screens into a resort’s hot tub. “My ...

An Upstate New York has been arrested after allegedly sending sexually explicit texts to a minor. Vincent Steiner, of Chili, N.Y., is accused of exchanging messages with a 12-year-old girl he met on ...