Tech News & Trends April 24, 2024

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🔵 Roblox houses over 40M games, often with mature themes and adult players. But, did you know that Roblox also has a suite of parental controls? Our App Review explains everything you need to know! Step-by-step. Chat-by-chat. We’ll show you how.

🔵 Top 5 Apps in the Apple Store: 1. Delta – game emulator for retro games, 2. Temu, 3. Threads, 4. Shein, and 5. Google. Honorable Mention: 6. TikTok.

🔵 Meta launched their new AI chatbot on Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and WhatsApp. And it can’t be removed. Please talk to your tweens and teens about what it is, the privacy concerns, and to always verify everything they interact with online, now that everything can be fabricated.

🔵 A school in CO tried to ban phones, but parents said no. The data is here, students and schools are better off without smartphones. Visit phonefreeschools.com for more help!

🔵 The NCMEC can’t keep up with the flood of CSAM. AI is winning, privacy (encryption) is hampering law enforcement, and children are the victims. The pendulum toward “privacy at all costs” has swung too far. Tech must solve this.

🔵 Brave teen girls are fighting back against deepfake porn. The schools did little. But they are doing something! NY might pass legislation banning the content. Our post for parents can help mitigate some risk:

🔵 *Updated: A revised version of the bill seeking to ban TikTok passed in both the House and now in the Senate. It’s heading to President Biden who said he would sign it. We will keep you updated on what happens next.

🔵 According to Fight the New Drug’s guest post from Heidi Olson, a sexual assault nurse examiner, porn is grooming children to accept violence and abuse within relationships. Our post can help parents with this tough topic:

Remember #delayistheway! Most of the best things for childhood are almost always analog.