{"id":2408,"date":"2021-12-03T05:49:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T04:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/12\/03\/facebook-tiktok-and-others-urged-to-reveal-how-many-children-use-their-platforms-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2021-12-03T05:49:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T04:49:05","slug":"facebook-tiktok-and-others-urged-to-reveal-how-many-children-use-their-platforms-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/12\/03\/facebook-tiktok-and-others-urged-to-reveal-how-many-children-use-their-platforms-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, TikTok and others urged to reveal how many children use their platforms &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Britain\u2019s culture and education secretaries demand transparency in advance of online safety bill<br \/>Last modified on Thu 2 Dec 2021 12.12 GMT<br \/>Tech companies including Facebook and TikTok have been urged to reveal how many children have used their platforms after being warned to expect tougher regulation under a landmark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/10\/techscape-online-safety-bill-ofcom\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">online safety bill<\/a>.<br \/>Leading tech firms were asked to produce details of underage use of their platforms at a meeting with the children\u2019s commissioner and the culture and education secretaries on Wednesday. The companies were also told to expect the draft online safety bill, which includes provisions to protect children from harmful content, to emerge from pre-legislative scrutiny as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/nov\/04\/tech-bosses-could-face-criminal-cases-over-online-harm-warns-uk-minister\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">tougher piece of legislation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement following the meeting, the office of the children\u2019s commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, said tech firms had pledged to \u201cidentify further information they can usefully share with the commissioner in a way which respects people\u2019s privacy, regarding children on their platforms and the nature of harms children may face\u201d.<br \/>It is understood the request for details of underage site use was made before the meeting and repeated during the gathering, where the subject of age-checking users was also brought up, along with parental controls in app stores.<br \/>The tech firms attending the meeting included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/facebook\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Facebook<\/a> and Instagram owner Meta, TikTok, Snap and Twitter \u2013 all of whom require a minimum age of 13 for their users. Google and Apple also attended.<br \/>The Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, told MPs in October that the company could make a \u201chuge dent\u201d in the number of under 13-year-olds on its site if it wanted to. She said: \u201cBut they don\u2019t want to because they know that young users are the future of the platform and the earlier they get them, the more likely they\u2019ll get them hooked.\u201d<br \/>In its most recent quarterly results statement, Meta said it had removed more than 2.6m accounts on Facebook and 850k accounts on Instagram because they were unable to meet the company\u2019s minimum age requirement.<br \/>The culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, said it remained \u201cfar too easy\u201d for children to access the worst corners of the internet. \u201cWe are creating new laws to compel the owners of tech sites to protect children from seeing horrific things online, and today I\u2019ve made clear to them that now is the time for action to sort out their algorithms, enforce their own age limits and be a force for good in young people\u2019s lives.\u201d<br \/>The education secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, said he welcomed the commitment tech companies made<em> <\/em>in the meeting \u201cto being more transparent and signposting important pieces of guidance for teachers and parents\u201d.<br \/><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"><\/span> The headline on this article was amended on 2 December 2021 to clarify that the request has been made of a number of major tech companies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/dec\/01\/facebook-and-tiktok-urged-to-reveal-how-many-children-use-their-platforms\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s culture and education secretaries demand transparency in advance of online safety billLast modified on Thu 2 Dec 2021 12.12 GMTTech companies including Facebook and TikTok have been urged to reveal how many children have used their platforms after being warned to expect tougher regulation under a landmark online safety bill.Leading tech firms were asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow1sXXCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}