Meta expands her safety measures for adolescents on Instagram by banning the live function of the platform. The company will expand its protective measures for people under 18 and to Facebook and Messenger platforms.
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Young people under 16 will be forbidden to use the live function of Instagram, unless they have their parents’ permission. They will also need their parents’ permission to deactivate a function that blurs images that contain suspicious nudity in their private conversations, according to The Guardian.
The changes were announced with the expansion of the Instagram and Messenger’s Instagram and Messenger accounts system.
Adolescent accounts were introduced last year and automatically activated settings that allow parents to set daily limits for the use of applications, to block teenage access to Instagram in certain hours and to see who changes their children.
Facebook and Messenger accounts for teenagers will be initially launched in the US, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. As with Instagram accounts, users under the age of 16 will need parents permission to change settings, while 16 and 17 years of age who have been introduced to new functions will be able to modify them independently.
Instagram accounts for teenagers have been used by 54 million young people under 18 years old, more than 90% of those between the ages of 13 and 15 keeping the application restrictions, according to Meta, the company that owns and operates, among others, Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp.
NSPCC, a charitable organization for child protection, said he welcomed the extension of measures, but said that Meta should make more efforts to prevent harmful materials on her platforms.
“In order for these changes to be truly effective, they must be combined with proactive measures so that the dangerous content does not proliferate on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger first”, Said the associate head of the online child safety policy at NSPCC, Matthew Sowemimo.
