{"id":12253,"date":"2023-11-16T08:37:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T07:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/meta-deflects-child-harm-inquiry-by-pointing-to-apple-and-google-app-stores\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T08:37:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T07:37:26","slug":"meta-deflects-child-harm-inquiry-by-pointing-to-apple-and-google-app-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/meta-deflects-child-harm-inquiry-by-pointing-to-apple-and-google-app-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta deflects child harm inquiry by pointing to Apple and Google app stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As US Senate began looking at the firm\u2019s failures to shield children, it called for laws requiring parental approval of app downloads<\/p>\n<p>Meta called on US lawmakers on Wednesday to regulate Google and Apple\u2019s app stores to better protect children, the same day that the Senate began investigating Meta\u2019s failures to shield children using its platforms.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2023\/11\/online-teen-safety-legislation-is-needed\/\">blog post<\/a> titled Parenting in a Digital World Is Hard. Congress Can Make It Easier, Antigone Davis, Meta\u2019s global head of safety, called for federal legislation that would mandate app stores to notify parents whenever a child between the age of 13 and 16 downloads an app, and would solicit the parents\u2019 approval. Children under 13 are already prohibited from creating accounts and downloading apps without a parent\u2019s go-ahead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/15\/apple-meta-google-child-harm-app-regulation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6bfe3732bdcf5f23eca547ea793a082f58c2355e\/0_84_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=90754135f2cae651031a20ac45a5d0a0\" title=\"Meta deflects child harm inquiry by pointing to Apple and Google app stores\" \/>As US Senate began looking at the firm\u2019s failures to shield children, it called for laws requiring parental approval of app downloads<br \/>\nMeta called on US lawmakers on Wednesday to regulate Google and Apple\u2019s app stores to better protect children, the same day that the Senate began investigating Meta\u2019s failures to shield children using its platforms.<br \/>\nIn a blog post titled Parenting in a Digital World Is Hard. Congress Can Make It Easier, Antigone Davis, Meta\u2019s global head of safety, called for federal legislation that would mandate app stores to notify parents whenever a child between the age of 13 and 16 downloads an app, and would solicit the parents\u2019 approval. Children under 13 are already prohibited from creating accounts and downloading apps without a parent\u2019s go-ahead. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As US Senate began looking at the firm\u2019s failures to shield children, it called for laws requiring parental approval of app downloads Meta called on US lawmakers on Wednesday to regulate Google and Apple\u2019s app stores to better protect children, the same day that the Senate began investigating Meta\u2019s failures to shield children using its &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/meta-deflects-child-harm-inquiry-by-pointing-to-apple-and-google-app-stores\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta deflects child harm inquiry by pointing to Apple and Google app stores<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12254,"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\/12253"}],"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=12253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}