{"id":2733,"date":"2021-09-05T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T15:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/05\/social-media-giants-increase-global-child-safety-after-uk-regulations-introduced\/"},"modified":"2021-09-05T17:17:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T15:17:02","slug":"social-media-giants-increase-global-child-safety-after-uk-regulations-introduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/05\/social-media-giants-increase-global-child-safety-after-uk-regulations-introduced\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media giants increase global child safety after UK regulations introduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok, Twitter and Facebook among companies bringing in new measures worldwide that protect children<\/p>\n<p>TikTok has turned off notifications for children past bedtime, Instagram has disabled targeted adverts for under-18s entirely and YouTube has turned off autoplay for teen users: moves seemingly triggered by Britain introducing a new set of regulations aimed at protecting children online.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday the UK introduced a new set of regulations aimed at protecting children and at a stroke became a global leader in the field, with the prospect of multimillion-dollar fines for companies that breach its new \u201cage appropriate design code\u201d leading to a cascade of last-minute changes across some of Silicon Valley\u2019s largest players.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2021\/sep\/05\/social-media-giants-increase-global-child-safety-after-uk-regulations-introduced\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c92585671033d66e56a2b429ccdc32214d872d08\/0_40_5845_3507\/master\/5845.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=77a2c09e73c383b030001b885b68ae19\" title=\"Social media giants increase global child safety after UK regulations introduced\" \/>TikTok, Twitter and Facebook among companies bringing in new measures worldwide that protect children<br \/>\nTikTok has turned off notifications for children past bedtime, Instagram has disabled targeted adverts for under-18s entirely and YouTube has turned off autoplay for teen users: moves seemingly triggered by Britain introducing a new set of regulations aimed at protecting children online.<br \/>\nOn Thursday the UK introduced a new set of regulations aimed at protecting children and at a stroke became a global leader in the field, with the prospect of multimillion-dollar fines for companies that breach its new \u201cage appropriate design code\u201d leading to a cascade of last-minute changes across some of Silicon Valley\u2019s largest players. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok, Twitter and Facebook among companies bringing in new measures worldwide that protect children TikTok has turned off notifications for children past bedtime, Instagram has disabled targeted adverts for under-18s entirely and YouTube has turned off autoplay for teen users: moves seemingly triggered by Britain introducing a new set of regulations aimed at protecting children &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/05\/social-media-giants-increase-global-child-safety-after-uk-regulations-introduced\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social media giants increase global child safety after UK regulations introduced<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2734,"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\/2733"}],"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=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}