Would new owners be as careful with children’s information?
On Tuesday, President Biden signed a law that would require ByteDance, a Chinese company, to sell TikTok within the next year or face a ban in the U.S. TikTok has said that it will fight the law in court, likely with support from the ACLU and other American free speech and internet freedom organizations.I have stayed out of this debate for two reasons. One is because I have a conflict of interest. TikTok is one of, the nonprofit internet safety organization that I co-founded.
We read a lot about the negatives when it comes to TikTok and other social media companies, but TikTok, like most of their competitors, has policies in place to protect younger users. There are risks associated with almost everything we do, but there are safeguards in place.TikTok requires a minimum age of 13 in the U.S.
Even 16- and 17-year-olds have some restrictions, such as not being allowed to live broadcast or accept virtual gifts, which are sometimes used by sexual predators as part of the grooming process. Direct messaging and video downloads are off by default for 16- and 17-year-olds, and all minors have a 60-minute daily time limit as well as disabled late-night notifications.
Regardless of which services your child uses, parents need to regularly speak with their teens and children about the safe and responsible use of these technologies and ensure that their children are being honest about their age so that they benefit from age-based protections.Age-based protections only work if the user is honest about their age. Right now, none of the popular social media services have iron-clad ways to verify the age of their users.
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