In the United States, a group of 35 associations asked Mark Zuckerberg in a letter to put an end to the project to open Instagram to children under 13. “The use of social media – Reuters reports citing the letter – can be harmful to the health and well-being of children, who are not equipped to face the challenges of having a social media account”. Among these associations there are also the prosecutors of three states and numerous international non-profit associations such as the Center for Digital Democracy in Washington, the Africa Digital Rights Hub in Ghana, the Australian Council on Children and the Media, the Common Sense Media in San Francisco and the 5Rights Foundation in Great Britain. In Europe, on the other hand, the GPR, the European law for the management of personal data, considers the age group under 13 protected, let’s say by default, so this experimentation could in no way see the light from us.
The Facebook replica
A Facebook spokesperson said the company has “just started exploring a children’s version of Instagram.” At the end of March, a rumor pointed to Pavni Diwan, former head of Google’s YouTune Kiids project, the man hired by Facebook to work on a parent-controlled environment for minors.
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The clash of the Italian Guarantor against social media
The Guarantor for the protection of personal data in January had ordered the blocking of social media accounts “for which the age of the registry has not been ascertained with certainty”. The decision came following the case of the girl from Palermo, that is) after “some press articles reported the news that the child from Palermo would have several profiles open on the two social networks”. In the viewfinder at first only TikTok then in the same month opened a file on Facebook and Instagram.
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