Tough new laws aim to protect kids from online harm
Online companies will soon face the threat of mega fines for ignoring a raft of new measures designed to protect…
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YouTube cuts off targeted kids ads in global overhaul
Brand owners will no longer be able to run targeted ads on YouTube kids’ videos – and the comments section…
M&S, Asda and KP caught serving junk foods ads to kids
Eight major food and retail brands – Asda, Kellogg, KFC, KP Snacks, Lidl, Marks & Spencer, McDonald’s and Pringles –…
Government urged to tighten up data laws for children
The Government is being urged to consider tightening up data protection laws for children on the back of a new…
Govt taps into World Cup to push engineering careers
The Government is aiming to capitalise on World Cup fever to encourage school kids to wake up to the joys…
Lords act on ‘eye-watering harvesting of kids’ data’
Technology giants could soon be curbed from the “eye-watering and inappropriate data-harvesting” they perform on young children if a group…
U16s data capture rules eased
The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) has eased the rules on whether brand owners can capture data from under 16s…
Sexualisation review ‘one-sided’
The Advertising Association (AA) claims the review into the Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood is turning into a one-sided argument,…
Minister: ‘We won’t batter marketers’
The Minister for Children & Families Tim Loughton has called for a ‘carrot and stick’ approach to advertising regulation, claiming…