Meta, the operator of the Facebook and Instagram platforms, has announced additional measures to protect the privacy of children’s accounts on these platforms.
“Meta will automatically apply advanced privacy settings to new Facebook accounts created by youth under the age of 16, and within those settings, users will be able to hide their friend list or friend list,” the company wrote in a blog. activity lists or the pages they follow on Facebook.”
With the new privacy settings, Meta will focus on preventing “suspicious” adult accounts from contacting teen accounts on the “Facebook” and “Instagram” platforms, as the company will review or report those accounts blocked by youth on those two platforms. , and “Facebook”, like “Instagram”, will block these accounts, preventing these accounts from contacting or sending messages and files to teen accounts.
According to current information, Meta is making a radical development in social networking platforms that will prevent the possibility of sending “suspicious” messages or pictures to teen accounts on these platforms and may start implement these measures before they expire. next December.
source: officelife.media
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