Instagram offers more striking private institutions to protect adolescents

Instagram intends to change the automatic privacy institutions of many teens in the United States, in an effort to improve safety and give parents more control of how their children are dealing online. The new settings will automatically make adolescent accounts, limit people who can send adolescents private messages and place adolescents in the ‘most limited’ category regarding the sensitive content of the look. This means that the application will prevent adolescents from seeing sensitive photos and videos, including publications that show quarrels or certain cosmetic procedures. These most limited settings will be automatically activated for all Instagram users under the age of 18, the company explained, although adolescents aged 16 and 17 can change it themselves. ‘Mita’ explained that if one of the younger teens tried to bypass the new limitations by changing his date of birth, it would use artificial intelligence technology to proactively identify these teens and put it ‘in more limited stories. Meta -criticism can reduce the restrictions imposed at those under the age of 16 if one of the parents has offered permission through his Instagram account. These extensive changes come after years of criticism affecting ‘Instagram’, which is attached to ‘Mita’, the parent company of ‘Facebook’, for the failure to protect the younger categories adequately online. Meta was prosecuted last year by a group of more than 30 states that accused the company’s applications of damaging the youngest age, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared in a congress hearing earlier this year over the safety of children, as Mita was criticized for making the sexual exploitation of children. Zuckerberg struggled in the courts to avoid personal responsibility for any alleged damage. In 2021, one of the reporters on Facebook went out to the public with hundreds of pages of the internal documents of the company “Meta”, including research conducted by the company itself and found that “Instagram” had a negative impact on the mental health of some teenage girls. The control of the parents, “Instagram” president Adam Musairi, said that the new policies and restrictions were prepared for more than a year, and that it was not designed to satisfy the evil legislators, saying, “Honestly, it was not designed for either of them.” He added: “I hope parents and adolescents will accept it well, because it is exactly those designed for them.” The new account settings are the biggest effort the business has so far to protect younger users. Adolescents will only be available to receive messages from the people they already follow, or those who have previous communication with them, and they can also be called (call) and refer to them (tag) by only users who follow them. In addition, they will receive a notice that invites them to stop using the application after 60 minutes daily. Parents will also be able to see the accounts where their teenage children send messages, but they will not be able to read the messages themselves. Other applications Mosciri indicated that the idea behind the increasing restrictions is similar to the plan set by “Meta” to create “Youth Instagram”, which is a proposal to give a version of the application to children under the age of 13. This plan was canceled in 2021, and Mosseri explained that there are no plans to revive it. The new ‘Teenagers’ accounts, as you call ‘Mita’, are likely to be introduced in other company applications, including ‘Facebook’. “We first start applying one and learn from it, then we make quick adjustments before we have published it through the rest of the applications.” The new restrictions will be applied to all users under the age of 18 in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia within 60 days, and “Mita” plans to publish it in the rest of the European Union later this year, while it will be applied worldwide from the early 2025.