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Sensor. Marsha is insisting on Blackburn, R-Ten., And Richard BlueMeMMT, D-Con. New Map feature of Instagram For closure, questioning the potential risks for the safety of children.
In a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday, MPs argued that children could be kept in the way of damage after the rollout of the new map tool, which allows users to share their live space with their followers.
“Over the years, we have played an alarm about the real-time location on the social media platform- especially when it comes to the young users- and we again urge you that they read the safety of children online, including pedophiles and traffic, instead of highlighting their location online for dangerous persons.
Instagram users can choose to use Map tools and also choose that followers can see their locations, Meta said in a press release. Users can turn off the facility at any time. Whenever they open the app or return to the app, the user’s location is updated if it is running in the background.
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The new map of Instagram allows tool users to share their live space with their followers. (Getty image)
The new feature stops until someone opposed the user, the press release noted.
Meta also said that parents with supervision installed for their child’s app will receive a notice if their child starts sharing his place.
“If you are a parents with the supervision installed for your teen, you have control the experience of sharing their location on the map,” it is said in the press release. “You will receive a notice. If your teen starts sharing your location, you get an opportunity to have an important conversation about sharing safely with friends. You can decide if your teenager has access to share the place on the map and see whom your teenager is sharing his place with.”
Instagram Head Adam Mosari also said on Thursday that the company is working on design reforms “as soon as possible.”
But despite the Meta’s claim that users’ locations will remain closed until they enable the new equipment, the senators said that some people stated that their location was automatically shared without their consent.
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Sensor. Marsha Blackburn, R-Ten., And Richard are insisting on closing the new map feature of Instagram, Richard Bluemental, D-CO. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker / Getty Image / Getty Image)
Legalists wrote, “This joint is a cause of special concern for us when it comes to children and teenagers who are active on Instagram,” MPs wrote. “Meta platforms are widely designed to prefer benefits on the conservation of their weakest users: our children.”
“While Meta argues that parents with supervision settings on their children’s accounts have controlled their location settings, it is clear that the existing parents controls are not enough,” the letter continued. “Meta has made it difficult for parents to fully understand or use parents’ control, causing misuse, exploitation and suffering of these precious children.”
Blackburn and BlueMement further argued that when it comes to saving children online, the track record of Meta is “Abijal”.
“As you know, children often follow requests from individuals they do not know personally,” MPs wrote. “To allow children to share their real-time space and display more easily, where they take pictures to strangers-many of them can be pedophiles and traffic-cavalry will increase children online hazards due to your inaction.”
The letter accused Meta of “frequent” that it would always fail to protect children’s lives until Congress passed the law,
In a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday, MPs argued that children could be kept in the way of damage after the rollout of the new map tool. (Getty Image / Getty Image)
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Blackburn and BluMentenal have earlier expressed concern about protecting the safety of children on the social media platforms of Mata, which includes Instagram and Facebook,
Last year, the pair sponsored the Kids Online Safety Act, which passed the Senate in the last summer, but did not cross the House. The measurement was resumed in May.
The senators also wrote a letter to Meta in April, calling for accountability on the allegations that the company has failed to protect users of the younger with sexually explicit discussion with a new section of the AI-AI-Interested Digital Chatbot. “
MPs wrote on Friday, “The permission of geolocation of minors on your platform is the latest example of this tragic reality.” “We urge you to leave the Map feature of Instagram immediately and instead of meaningful safety institute for online children – they are nothing less.”
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