This Monday (21), Meta announced a series of novelties aimed at protecting minors with accounts on its social networks. In addition to changes limiting interactions with suspicious Instagram accounts, the company announced new privacy standards on Facebook and a global platform that fights the spread of intimate images of young people.
The safety and privacy of minors currently seems to be one of the focuses of the major social networks. after the TikTok decides to raise the minimum age of its livesit is Meta’s turn to also make updates related to the subject on its platforms.
The company announced the launch of extra layers of protection so that teenagers do not come into contact with or be harassed by “suspicious” adults on the app. This term, according to the company, refers to accounts that were recently blocked or reported by another young person on the network.
To this end, these profiles will no longer appear in the “people you may know” recommendations of teen accounts, preventing a minor from accidentally adding a dubious contact.
In addition, on Instagram, Meta has been testing removing the message button from minors’ accounts when they are viewed by a profile identified as suspicious.
New privacy settings
Another novelty released by Meta was the update of its Facebook privacy settings for minors (16 years old or 18 years old, according to the country in question).
According to the platform, new teen accounts created on the social network will be private by default, making information such as friends list, followed pages and publications in which they were tagged (which must be approved) restricted to certain profiles.
These measures were also adopted by Instagram just over a year ago and help control who sees or responds to a young person’s content on the platform.
Instagram will not interfere with accounts for minors who are already on the network, but promises to encourage teens who use the app to also choose these more private settings.
Fight against dissemination of intimate images
Finally, in addition to the implemented updates, the company also shared that it has been working to prevent the online dissemination of intimate images of teenagers that are on its platforms.
Despite doing its best to discourage this type of posting on the apps, Meta said it has been taking steps to prevent the non-consensual sharing of photos that have already been published on Instagram or Facebook.
To that end, she has teamed up with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and is building a global platform in the same molds as for adults🇧🇷
In this space, she intends to help teenagers worried that their intimate images are shared without their consent, helping them to regain control of the content through an image fingerprint.
With information: Goal
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