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New Family Center tool gives parents better insight into their teen's Discord usage
Discord is announcing Family Center, a tool that will help parents keep their teens safe on the platform. It includes a new activity dashboard and a weekly email summary.
TikTok gives parents even more control over what their teens see
TikTok is introducing new content filtering controls to its "Family Pairing" feature, letting parents filter out videos containing specific words or hashtags.
Google revamps Assistant parental controls and adds a kids' dictionary
Google Assistant now has parental controls for content, and can give age-appropriate answers to questions.
Marvel's Netflix shows will move to Disney+ in the US on March 16th
Disney+ has confirmed that 'Daredevil' and the rest of Marvel's Netflix shows are coming to US viewers starting March 16th.
HTC Vive's metaverse vision includes safeguards for children
HTC has unveiled its vision of a metaverse, including parental controls to keep kids out of trouble in VR.
China sues Tencent over WeChat's 'youth mode'
China has sued Tencent over WeChat's 'youth mode,' claiming the feature violates laws protecting children.
Xbox family app now lets parents set spending limits
A new version of the Xbox Family Settings app lets parents set limits on their kids' spending for games and add-ons.
'Roblox' will use content ratings to help limit access to sexual material
'Roblox' creators have promised a content rating system that will help prevent kids from seeing sexual activity in games on the platform.
Google Family Link now lets parents remove time limits on individual apps
Google is launching a families website featuring resources designed to help parents teach kids about tech and screen time from PBS Kids, Sesame Workshop and meditation platform Headspace.
Google TV is getting kids profiles this month
It's been almost six months since Google launched its latest TV-focused platform, appropriately called Google TV, alongside new Chromecast hardware. Somewhat surprisingly, Google TV arrived without some essential features for families with young children, as there were no kids profiles or parental controls. That's being fixed, as Google TV will soon support kids profiles and various screen time control features.
YouTube will expand parental controls for tweens and teens
Supervised accounts will enable content settings and limit some features.
Apple's parental controls prevent kids from searching for 'Asian' things
“Asian food” is off-limits, as are terms like “Asian fusion,” “Asian diaspora,” “Asian communities”, “Asian countries” and “Asian politics”, “Asian cultures” and “Asian hairstyles”.
Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony will collaborate to make gaming safer
Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony have agreed to a set of common principles for safer gaming, including efforts to fight hate and harassment.
The Xbox Family app gives parents a remote 'pause' button
Xbox is giving parents a couple new ways to monitor their children’s gaming.
TikTok's parental controls can now block search terms, users and hashtags
Caregivers can now block specific search terms, limit comments and discoverability for underage TikTok accounts.
PS4 update lets parents decide which games kids can and can't chat in
Sony has released a PS4 update that pulls user-made events and private communities, but improves parental controls to let kids ask for chat permissions.
Xbox Family Sharing App arrives on iOS and Android today
Just in time for the school year, Microsoft is rolling out the official Xbox Family Sharing App.
Xbox Family Settings app sets limits on your kids' game time
Microsoft has released an Xbox Family Settings app in preview to help parents track and limit their kids' gaming.
Netflix's new parental controls include PIN-protected profiles
Netflix’s parental controls have been something of a mess, but they just got considerably better.
TikTok lets parents set time limits and vet DMs on teen accounts
As TikTok has become increasingly popular with teens, the platform has gradually introduced a number of measures to help keep young people safe -- it introduced age checks last year, and more recently it banned videos showing "underage delinquent behavior." Now, it's added a range of parental controls into the mix.
