The Congressional Budget Office says the government would spend about $10  …

The company behind Broken Thumbs Apps, which makes kid-focused iOS games, has  …

Who could possibly be against protecting kids on the Internet? It's not that hard to create a bi-partisan consensus that our kids need special protection online. The devil, however, is in the detail.

Op-ed: Among developed countries, only the US and Turkey lack a comprehensive  …

Google kills GMail for the under-13 set. Also asks for specific birthdates instead of "are you over 13? 18?"

Five top security experts say that the PROTECT IP Act's domain name  …

Last year's controversial COICA bill is about to be replaced with the updated  …

Why COICA is freakin' stupid; the entire DNS might fragment.

The US government wants ISPs to stop deleting subscriber logs so quickly; a  …

A former OpenBSD contributor claims that the FBI paid open source developers  …

Ever wonder why youth have to be over 13 to create an account on Facebook or Gmail or Skype? It has nothing to do with safety.  In 1998, the U.S. Congress enacted the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) with the best of intentions.  They wanted to make certain that corporations could not collect or sell data about children under the age of 13 without parental permission, so they created a requirement to check age and get parental permission for those under 13. Most companies took one look at COPPA and decided that the process of

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A federal court once again struck down the 1998 Child Online Protection Act ( …

Jeez, First Monday, get some real page titles, will you? Article on moral panics in cyberspace.