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Eight months into the world’s first under-16 social media ban, 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 are still using TikTok, one percentage point below where the figure sat before the law took effect. The data comes from the parental control software maker Qustodio, and it puts numbers to something already visible in the […]
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Eight months after Australia’s ban, teen TikTok use is down one percentage point Read More »
Adam Mosseri, who has run Instagram since 2018, told a federal jury in Oakland that the app’s “Take a Break” feature “helped, but not nearly as much as we hoped”, as internal documents showed only 1.8% of teenagers used it. Meta’s public blog post at the time said more than 90% of users who turned […]
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Adam Mosseri testified that Instagram’s Take a Break feature helped less than hoped Read More »
Brazil has fined TikTok’s owner over the way it handled children’s data, and the ruling covers people who never had an account. The National Data Protection Agency imposed a penalty of 153.7 million reais on ByteDance on Tuesday, worth about $29.9m. It cited irregularities in the processing of data belonging to children and adolescents. TikTok […]
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Brazil fines TikTok’s owner $29.9m over children’s data, including guest sessions Read More »
X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping Read More »
Someone inside Instagram proposed switching its break reminder on by default. The proposal was rejected because the cost to the app’s core metrics was not desirable. George Volichenko, a former Meta data scientist, told that to a jury in Oakland this week. Mike Swift reported the testimony from the courtroom for MLex. Volichenko worked on […]
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Meta refused to switch a teen safety tool on by default, jury told Read More »
Raspberry Pi shares its official tutorial for making a cyberdeck Read More »
New Zealand will introduce a bill requiring platforms to verify users are over 16, though two of three coalition partners oppose it and no vote will happen before November’s election. France’s under-15 ban takes effect on 1 September with its age verification mandate stripped out. New Zealand will introduce a bill on Monday requiring social […]
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New Zealand joins the global push to keep under-16s off social media Read More »
TikTok and ByteDance have agreed to pay $400mn to settle a US Justice Department case alleging they let millions of under-13s use the platform and collected their data without parental consent. Ireland’s regulator fined the company €345mn over children’s accounts in 2023. TikTok and ByteDance will pay $400mn to end the US government’s children’s privacy […]
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TikTok will pay $400mn over children’s privacy, a number Europe reached in 2023 Read More »
Meta has launched Pocket across the United States. The app it is based on shut down the same day. Pocket had been testing quietly in Brazil since July. It is now available to everyone in the US. Pocket lets people type a prompt and get back a small interactive thing, which Meta calls a gizmo. […]
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Meta launched Pocket in the US, and the app it came from shut down the same day Read More »