Apps aimed at children have been available since the inception of the App Store. However, not all apps created for minors are safe to use. This is the main finding of a new survey conducted by two ...

Apple’s App Store is hosting hundreds of inappropriate apps that are rated as suitable for children as young as 12, according to a new report. Nonprofit organizations Parents Together Action and Heat ...

Over a period of 24 hours, a recent study found approximately 200 apps on Apple’s (AAPL) App Store that were rated for children that included inappropriate content, including dieting, circumventing ...

There’s been growing pressure to protect children from age-inappropriate content in both apps and websites at both state and federal levels. Moves to shift the responsibility from individual ...

A new report published by the child safety groups Heat Initiative and ParentsTogether Action details the alarming presence of inappropriate apps that are rated as suitable for children as young as ...

In 2024, a 14-year-old boy from Florida was lured into taking his own life through the app Character.AI, where a chatbot sent him sexual messages and responded to his suicidal thoughts with ...

Before Google hired away Character.ai’s leadership, both Google and Apple issued warnings to the startup that prompted it to introduce stronger content filters and increase its age rating to 17+ on ...