“Sharing photos without the owner’s consent is a violation of their rights and can result in legal consequences, including monetary damages and injunctions to stop the infringing activity.” Recently, Netflix released a documentary titled, “The Most Hated Man on the Internet,” which is about anti-revenge porn activists and their efforts to take down the website,...Read More
(Photo by Sanket Mishra via Unsplash) By Talker Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe children under the age of 16 should not be allowed on social media, according to new research. The survey of 2,000 Americans revealed that 62% of respondents agreed that kids 15 and under should be barred from creating social media accounts. With discussions...Read More
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) – Officer Claire Ostrowski of the Wausau Police Department and Andy Grimm, coordinator of pupil services and school safety for the Wausau School District, discussed back-to-school safety measures, including risks associated with posting children’s photos on social media and traditional student safety practices. Social media risks Ostrowski said sharing back-to-school photos on...Read More
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has unveiled a proposed law banning children younger than 16 from using social media platforms, citing what he said Monday was “harm being done to a generation” of young people. However, the bill hasn’t yet attracted enough support to pass into law because two...Read More
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Australia in December became the world’s first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, YouTube and Meta’s Instagram and Facebook. What are other countries and companies doing to regulate access to social media amid mounting concerns over the impact of social media on children’s health and safety?...Read More
Sydney: New Zealand’s conservative coalition government will introduce a bill in Parliament on Monday that seeks to ban children under 16 from using social media, and proposes fines of up to 10% of a platform’s global revenue for non-compliance. The bill would require social media platforms to take reasonable steps to verify users’ ages, including...Read More
Several methods could be used to do this, including “using existing account information, facial age estimation, digital ID services, and formal ID”. Age-restricted platforms are defined by the Government as being internet services accessible in New Zealand which enable users to exchange content with others, and which have one or more specified features. These include...Read More
Several methods could be used to do this, including “using existing account information, facial age estimation, digital ID services, and formal ID”. Age-restricted platforms are defined by the Government as being internet services accessible in New Zealand which enable users to exchange content with others, and which have one or more specified features. These include...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – A flood of lawsuits against social media giants claim that by engineering their platforms to be hard to resist, the companies are causing serious harm to young users. In the first personal injury case to go to trial, a Los Angeles jury in March found Meta Platforms and Google negligent in the...Read More
