{"id":10561,"date":"2023-07-01T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T08:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/01\/metas-new-parental-tools-will-not-protect-vulnerable-children-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T08:37:18","slug":"metas-new-parental-tools-will-not-protect-vulnerable-children-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/01\/metas-new-parental-tools-will-not-protect-vulnerable-children-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s new parental tools will not protect vulnerable children, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech firm gives parents greater control over their children\u2019s online activities, but not all kids have consistent supervision<\/p>\n<p>Social media giant Meta this week introduced new parental supervision tools, but child protection and anti-sex trafficking organizations say the new measures offer little protection to the children most vulnerable to exploitation, and divert the responsibility from the company to keep its users safe.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Meta <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2023\/06\/parental-supervision-and-teen-time-management-on-metas-apps\/\">launched new features<\/a> aimed at increasing parents\u2019 awareness of their children\u2019s activities on its platforms. For Messenger, its private message service, parents can now view and receive updates on their child\u2019s contacts list and monitor who views any stories their child posts. On Instagram, the company has introduced a new notice to alert parents if their child has blocked somebody.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jul\/01\/meta-parental-tools-online-safety-children-trafficking\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3bac389aa7fdbdafc339492d0ad199564ec56295\/0_187_5616_3370\/master\/5616.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a7706fe1f5f83d51e4fa9bc484d93ffc\" title=\"Meta\u2019s new parental tools will not protect vulnerable children, experts say\" \/>Tech firm gives parents greater control over their children\u2019s online activities, but not all kids have consistent supervision<br \/>\nSocial media giant Meta this week introduced new parental supervision tools, but child protection and anti-sex trafficking organizations say the new measures offer little protection to the children most vulnerable to exploitation, and divert the responsibility from the company to keep its users safe.<br \/>\nOn Tuesday, Meta launched new features aimed at increasing parents\u2019 awareness of their children\u2019s activities on its platforms. For Messenger, its private message service, parents can now view and receive updates on their child\u2019s contacts list and monitor who views any stories their child posts. On Instagram, the company has introduced a new notice to alert parents if their child has blocked somebody. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech firm gives parents greater control over their children\u2019s online activities, but not all kids have consistent supervision Social media giant Meta this week introduced new parental supervision tools, but child protection and anti-sex trafficking organizations say the new measures offer little protection to the children most vulnerable to exploitation, and divert the responsibility from &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/01\/metas-new-parental-tools-will-not-protect-vulnerable-children-experts-say\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta\u2019s new parental tools will not protect vulnerable children, experts say<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}