Australia: new consultation – online safety expectations

You can have a say on the expectations that Government has for online service providers and to set the benchmark for online services to take proactive and preventative steps to protect Australians from abusive conduct and harmful content online.  You can read the exposure draft of the Online Safety (Basic Online Safety Expectations) Determination 2021 and provide a submission by 15 October 2021 here

and some background commentary

Spooked by new laws, tech doubles down on kids' privacy in UK

Tech giants are scrambling to update their privacy rules for young users in order to comply with new regulations from the United Kingdom focused on teens' online privacy and wellbeing.  This is a good summary
 

ABC wants to chat with children's producers

The free 30 minute one-on-one sessions, dubbed ‘Chat With ABC Children’s', are an opportunity not only to pitch an idea but to also ask the ABC Children's team about any topic, including ABC’s commissioning priorities

ACTF teams with Stan

Stan has partnered with the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) on a feature film initiative, calling for pitches aimed at children’s, family or tween/teen audiences. More here

What UK 5Rights research  has found

A recent report has found that children are being exposed to inappropriate online content sometimes right after they set up their social media accounts

Apple wants to check your phone for child abuse images...

Apple's new features are an attempt to do that... but while Apple's attempts to protect children may be valiant, they also open a Pandora's box of privacy and surveillance issues.  Read about how this feature doesn't just look at images stored on the cloud it also scans users' devices without their consent

Canada has new industry standard for food and beverage ads directed to children

This article outlines the main restriction that Advertising for a food or beverage product may not be primarily directed to persons under thirteen years of age... unless the product satisfies the child advertising nutrition criteria set forth in Appendix A of the Code. These nutrition criteria are based on the food or beverage's saturated fat, sodium and/or sugar content

What babies hear from baby TV

A call for the need for writers and producers of media screen content to design more suitable developmentally appropriate programs for baby, infant, and toddler viewers.

New research on competitive violent games

Research looking at the effects of violent video game content, difficulty, and competition on aggressive behavior

UK: legal ages for playing social media

A guide to the most common social networks and the age limits for children

US Children and Screens webinar

A conversation about Media Rules, Parental Controls and Family Media Plans. For more insight into technology’s influence on mood and wellbeing, watch the full webinar here

Latest movie reviews

Check out ACCM's reviews of Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild (not suitable for under 8s) and Free Guy (not suitable for under 14s)

ACCM has added more reviews

These include the new  AppCensus analyses showing what tracking and collection activity is going in each app. Check these out here