Meta announced today that it is rolling out new DM restrictions on both Facebook and Instagram for teens that prevent anyone from messaging them unsolicitedly. Until now, Instagram restricts adults ov
Snapchat launched parental controls on its app last year through the new “Family Center” feature. Today, the company announced through a post on its online Privacy and Safety Hub it will n
A number of app developers building third-party screen time trackers and parental control applications are worried that Apple’s increased scrutiny of their apps in recent weeks is not a coincide
Google today is expanding the capabilities of its Android parental control software, Family Link, to go beyond helping parents better manage their child’s device and app usage. Now, the Family L
Family Link, Google’s parental control software for Android devices, is now exiting its beta testing period and is now generally available to anyone in the U.S. without the need for an invitatio
Circle Media, the company behind Circle with Disney – a device that helps parents enforce their home’s internet rules and restrictions – has raised $10 million in Series A funding,
Amazon’s FreeTime service, which includes access to curated kid-friendly content and various parental controls, is now arriving on Android devices with the launch of a new FreeTime Android app.
Circle with Disney, a device that helps parents manage their home’s internet rules and restrictions, wants to be more than just a modern-day net nanny. Already, it had differentiated itself fro
A new startup called unGlue wants to help kids better manage their time on connected devices. Just don’t call it parental control software, says co-founder and CEO Alon Shwartz. The idea, he exp
American children spend five to seven hours per day staring at screens, TV and otherwise, according to data <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/patientinstructions/000355.
<a target="_blank" href="http://kytephone.com/">Kytephone</a>, the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/27/y-combinator-demo-day-session-3/">Y Combinator-backed</a> startup making smartphones kid-f