While Meta, Snap and X issued a joint statement praising the Women of Utah, which it calls Google in relation to. Instead of protecting children and giving parents more control, General Policy Director Karim Ghanem wrote that the legislation “requires application stores to participate if the user is a child or teenager with all applicants (millions of individual companies) without approval or parents’ rules on how to use information. This raises the risks of real privacy and safety, such as the possibility of bad actors to sell data or use it for other privileged purposes. ” Ghanem that social media companies are the real beneficiaries of the law, because “they can avoid this responsibility despite the fact that applications are just one of the many ways that children can access these platforms.” Meta and Google are subjected to YouTube to criticism in the past for not doing enough to keep its smallest users safe on their platforms Pay videos for children to potential predators Or keep adolescents in the content ring It makes them feel bad about themselves. Both companies said they maintain strong policies and resources to create health experiences on their platforms.
“We welcome Google the privilege that they can share age information with app developers, and we agree to this should be done in a specific way for privacy,” says Meta spokesman Jimmy Radis in a statement. “But with millions of applications on the Google App Store, and more every day, it is not clear how it will determine the applications for receiving this data. Users before downloading applications. This method will also protect the privacy of users, and the head of Meta Global Safety Written in 2023Because “by checking the age of a teenager in the application store, individual applications will not be needed to collect sensitive potential identification information.” How to verify the exact ages of users is a great concern for privacy defenders, but it has not been completely done in some legislation. Utah, for example, He says Application store operators can use either “commercially available methods designed to ensure accuracy”, or other methods to be identified and considered acceptable by government organizers.
“Since developers know their applications better, they are better to determine when to determine when and where the age gate may be useful for its users.”
Google believes it has a “better way”. For Google, this means that application stores should only provide a safeguarding age for developers who “actually need them” – this means only for applications that provide risky content, and perhaps nothing more worldly like weather application. In this context, Google suggests placing more estimated power on application developers, instead of application stores, to determine the appropriate protection that must be placed for a specific age group. “Since the developers know their applications better, they are the best position to determine when and the place that the age gate is beneficial to its users, and this may develop over time, and this is another reason that will not protect the approach of everything that is sufficiently suitable for everything,” Ghanem writes. Google also suggests “clear consequences for developers who violate user confidence” by doing things like “access to an incorrect age signal.”
Apple is similarly raised concerns about collecting possible excessive data. in White paper Advertisement Steps that will take on help to protect children onlineIncluding allowing parents to exchange age ranges for children with developers, Apple emphasized the importance of collecting minimal data only to protect user privacy.
“Everyone wants to protect children and adolescents online, and make sure they are dealing with the right content of age,” Ghanem writes, “but how is it important.”
