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Parents Can Now Block Meta's Flirty Bots From Talking To Teens
Meta said on Friday it will let parents disable their teens' private chats with AI characters, adding another measure to make its social media platforms safe for minorsafterfiercecriticismoverthe the behaviour of its flirty chatbots.
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"Parents Shamed Her Over Shorts, Talking To Boys": Radhika Yadav's Friend
Radhika Yadav, a 25-year-old tennis player in Gurugram was allegedly shot dead by her father Deepak Yadav. Three days after the chilling murder, one of Radhika's friends shared an emotional video on social media and made some explosive claims.
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Meta Expands 'Teen Accounts' to Facebook, Messenger Amid Children's Online Safety Regulatory Push
Meta's expansion of safety features for teens comes as some lawmakers say they plan to press ahead with proposed legislation, such as the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), seeking to protect children from social media harms. Meta users under 16 will also not be allowed to disable a feature that automatically blurs images potentially containing nudity ...
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Instagram Brings Teen Accounts With Additional Protections to Users in India
Instagram's Teen Accounts feature is being rolled out in India to improve the safety of younger users. It restricts account functionalities for underage users and requires parental consent for certain settings. Parents of users aged 16 and above can enable supervision features, and offensive words and phrases will be filtered out of messages and co...
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Draft Data Protection Rules Mandate Due Diligence, Explicit Consent for Processing Children's Data
The recently released draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules specify that parent's verifiable consent will have to be obtained by social media or online platforms before children can create any account.
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New York Set To Restrict Social Media Algorithms For Teens: Report
New York is planning to prohibit social media companies from using algorithms to control content to youth without parental consent under a tentative agreement reached by state lawmakers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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New Law In France Requires Parental Consent For Social Media Platforms
France approved a new law Thursday requiring social media platforms like TikTok to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for those under 15 years in an effort to protect children online.
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US Public Schools Blame Big Tech Firms for Social Media Harm, Mental Health Crisis in Lawsuit: All Details
Facebook parent Meta, Alphabet, Snap, and TikTok were sued by US public schools in Seattle last week, claiming that companies purposefully designed products to hook younger users, while creating a mental health crisis. The firms have previously stated that they aim to create an enjoyable experience on their platforms for users, while removing harmf...
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Snapchat and Other Social Media Platforms Offer Parental Control Features, but Do They Offer Enough Safety?
Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram and other social media platforms are bolting on new features to make their services safer and more age appropriate. However, there is no discussion on how algorithms pushing endless content that can drag anyone, not just teens, into harmful rabbit holes.
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Snap Launches Parental Control Tool Family Center, Lets Parents Check Teens’ Contacts
Snap has introduced its first parental control tool, Family Center, on Tuesday. The feature allows parents to see who their teens are talking to, but not the substance of their conversations. Through the feature, parents can invite their teens to join Family Center on Snapchat. Most social media companies have been previously criticised over a lack...
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US Senators Ask FTC to Probe TikTok for ‘Repeated Misrepresentations’ Over US Data Access
Two US Senators have called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate social media app TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance, following a report saying the short video app permitted TikTok engineers and executives in China to repeatedly access private data of US users. "TikTok has never shared US user data with the Chinese government, nor ...
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Instagram Gets Parental Controls, Quest VR Headsets to Follow
Instagram will allow parents to track how much time their children are spending on the social media app and will soon roll out parental supervision features on Quest virtual reality headsets, the company said on Wednesday.
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Apple Responds to Investors' Demand on iPhone Addiction in Kids, Says It Will Improve Parental Controls
Apple said the iPhone already offers a variety of controls that enable parents to restrict or block "effectively anything a child could download or access online."
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Stop Posting Photos of Kids on Facebook, French Cops Warn Parents
France's data protection authority has also urged parents to implement stronger privacy controls to limit the audience for their photos.
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Children Even Below 13 Have Facebook Accounts in India Says Study
Growing popularity of social networks has a huge number of children in India creating their accounts on Facebook even before they turn 13, a study by Intel Security claimed today. The social media platform has set 13 as the minimum age for a user to create an account.
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Parents Can Now Block Meta's Flirty Bots From Talking To Teens
Meta said on Friday it will let parents disable their teens' private chats with AI characters, adding another measure to make its social media platforms safe for minorsafterfiercecriticismoverthe the behaviour of its flirty chatbots.
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"Parents Shamed Her Over Shorts, Talking To Boys": Radhika Yadav's Friend
Radhika Yadav, a 25-year-old tennis player in Gurugram was allegedly shot dead by her father Deepak Yadav. Three days after the chilling murder, one of Radhika's friends shared an emotional video on social media and made some explosive claims.
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Meta Expands 'Teen Accounts' to Facebook, Messenger Amid Children's Online Safety Regulatory Push
Meta's expansion of safety features for teens comes as some lawmakers say they plan to press ahead with proposed legislation, such as the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), seeking to protect children from social media harms. Meta users under 16 will also not be allowed to disable a feature that automatically blurs images potentially containing nudity ...
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Instagram Brings Teen Accounts With Additional Protections to Users in India
Instagram's Teen Accounts feature is being rolled out in India to improve the safety of younger users. It restricts account functionalities for underage users and requires parental consent for certain settings. Parents of users aged 16 and above can enable supervision features, and offensive words and phrases will be filtered out of messages and co...
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Draft Data Protection Rules Mandate Due Diligence, Explicit Consent for Processing Children's Data
The recently released draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules specify that parent's verifiable consent will have to be obtained by social media or online platforms before children can create any account.
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New York Set To Restrict Social Media Algorithms For Teens: Report
New York is planning to prohibit social media companies from using algorithms to control content to youth without parental consent under a tentative agreement reached by state lawmakers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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New Law In France Requires Parental Consent For Social Media Platforms
France approved a new law Thursday requiring social media platforms like TikTok to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for those under 15 years in an effort to protect children online.
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US Public Schools Blame Big Tech Firms for Social Media Harm, Mental Health Crisis in Lawsuit: All Details
Facebook parent Meta, Alphabet, Snap, and TikTok were sued by US public schools in Seattle last week, claiming that companies purposefully designed products to hook younger users, while creating a mental health crisis. The firms have previously stated that they aim to create an enjoyable experience on their platforms for users, while removing harmf...
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Snapchat and Other Social Media Platforms Offer Parental Control Features, but Do They Offer Enough Safety?
Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram and other social media platforms are bolting on new features to make their services safer and more age appropriate. However, there is no discussion on how algorithms pushing endless content that can drag anyone, not just teens, into harmful rabbit holes.
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Snap Launches Parental Control Tool Family Center, Lets Parents Check Teens’ Contacts
Snap has introduced its first parental control tool, Family Center, on Tuesday. The feature allows parents to see who their teens are talking to, but not the substance of their conversations. Through the feature, parents can invite their teens to join Family Center on Snapchat. Most social media companies have been previously criticised over a lack...
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US Senators Ask FTC to Probe TikTok for ‘Repeated Misrepresentations’ Over US Data Access
Two US Senators have called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate social media app TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance, following a report saying the short video app permitted TikTok engineers and executives in China to repeatedly access private data of US users. "TikTok has never shared US user data with the Chinese government, nor ...
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Instagram Gets Parental Controls, Quest VR Headsets to Follow
Instagram will allow parents to track how much time their children are spending on the social media app and will soon roll out parental supervision features on Quest virtual reality headsets, the company said on Wednesday.
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Apple Responds to Investors' Demand on iPhone Addiction in Kids, Says It Will Improve Parental Controls
Apple said the iPhone already offers a variety of controls that enable parents to restrict or block "effectively anything a child could download or access online."
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Stop Posting Photos of Kids on Facebook, French Cops Warn Parents
France's data protection authority has also urged parents to implement stronger privacy controls to limit the audience for their photos.
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Children Even Below 13 Have Facebook Accounts in India Says Study
Growing popularity of social networks has a huge number of children in India creating their accounts on Facebook even before they turn 13, a study by Intel Security claimed today. The social media platform has set 13 as the minimum age for a user to create an account.
