The head of Instagram is due to speak at a hearing in the US Congress on December 7 and talk about the measures taken by his service to protect children. Tuesday, December 7th, Instagram administration stated the intention to carefully select the content recommended for teens and to nudge them...
The company is one of the largest providers of confidential information on the personal data market. Specialists of the non-profit organization The Markup spent investigation into the service Life360, which allows tracking the geolocation of children. As it turned out, the company is one of the largest providers of confidential...
Fighters against child abuse believe that disappearing messages and encryption are a threat to the safety of children. WhatsApp will soon be able to exchange self-destructing messages that disappear after a day. However, such a useful security feature causes concern among organizations involved in the protection of children’s rights, writes...
At the same time, Apple decided to abandon the function that would warn parents about the actions of children. With the next platform update, Apple iPhones will receive a feature that has long been suggested by child safety activists. Minors in the United States will receive notifications when they try...
The prosecutor’s office in the US state of Ohio has filed a lawsuit against Meta (formerly Facebook) over the algorithms of its work with children. The US Attorney’s Office in Ohio has filed a $ 100 billion lawsuit against Facebook, which was recently renamed Meta. This decision was made by...
This function was first introduced in August this year, but it has become widely available only now. Google has launched a new security feature that allows individuals under the age of eighteen to submit requests to remove their photos from search results. For the first time, the company announced its...
The Chinese authorities are confident that cartoons should support “truth, goodness and beauty.” The Chinese television regulator demanded that producers not allow scenes of violence, vulgar and pornographic content to appear in cartoons. At the same time, the authorities will encourage “healthy” cartoons that carry “truth, goodness and beauty.” The...
Chinese users under the age of 14 will be able to surf TikTok for no more than forty minutes a day. The Chinese service Douyin, known worldwide as TikTok, has limited the use of the application by children. Last weekend on Tencent-owned qq.com, owner of TikTok (ByteDance) reported on the...
