minors

Minors are individuals who have not yet reached the age of legal adulthood, typically defined as under 18 years old. They are the subject of news coverage due to their legal status, vulnerability, and the specific policies and protections that apply to them.

Why it’s in the news: Minors are in the news due to a series of policy debates and legal actions concerning their health, safety, and digital rights across different countries.

Latest on minors

• Medicaid will stop paying for some gender-affirming care for transgender minors
• Philippines weighs social media ban for minors as school violence, online extremism fuel alarm
• TikTok’s protection of minors should not be opt-in, warns EU
• ICE Is Using Data Broker Tools to ‘Identify Unaccompanied Minors’ and ‘Fraud’
• Thai police arrest boxing camp manager for trafficking minors, hunt Norwegian sponsor
• Special panel report: Child safety online protecting and empowering minors in a digital world
• the regulator focused on age checks, re-registration controls, and default privacy settings for under-18 profiles
• The decision focuses heavily on minors, because the service was accessible to them and the regulator found the company's safeguards and age-verification procedures insufficient.
• TikTok faces EU charges for allegedly failing to protect minors from cyberbullying and predators through its account and privacy settings.
• A platform built to protect minors from inappropriate content couldn't verify who was actually using it.

Connections

2 entities linked to minors across the news graph.