{"id":33671,"date":"2021-04-05T18:49:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T01:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33671"},"modified":"2021-04-05T18:49:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T01:49:14","slug":"democrats-question-instagram-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33671","title":{"rendered":"DEMOCRATS QUESTION INSTAGRAM FOR KIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats told Facebook on Monday they have concerns about the platform\u2019s plans for an Instagram for children over the company\u2019s \u201cpast failures\u201d to protect kids on platforms aimed at youth users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook has a record of failing to protect children\u2019s privacy and safety, casting serious doubt on its ability to do so on a version of Instagram that is marketed to children,\u201d\u00a0 Sen.\u00a0Ed Markey\u00a0(D-Mass.), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Rep.\u00a0Kathy Castor\u00a0(D-Fla.) and Rep.\u00a0Lori Trahan\u00a0(D-Mass.)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ktvfwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqllrsptd_owmtwwjzjdtltrllfqqt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ktvfwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqllrsptd_owmtwwjzjdtltrllfqqt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1617752056808000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHro8cZW2bJ8iB6tRoCl_JTPQx3GQ\">wrote in a letter<\/a>\u00a0to Facebook CEO\u00a0Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats pressed Facebook over concerns about children\u2019s safety in regards to health, well being and data privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram requires users to be at least 13 years old to make an account, but Facebook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/chgqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjzttglmhq_owmtwwjzjdtltrllfqqt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/chgqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjzttglmhq_owmtwwjzjdtltrllfqqt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1617752056808000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGgl06Z_yY3TAfFs18Uc4XkRLx1WQ\">has acknowledged<\/a>\u00a0that young users sometimes lie about their date of birth in creating an account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we can encourage kids to use an experience that is age-appropriate and managed by parents, we think that&#8217;s far better than kids using apps that weren&#8217;t designed for them,\u201d Stephanie Otway, a Facebook spokesperson, said in response to the letter.<\/p>\n<p>But the Democrats said that if Facebook\u2019s goal is to decrease the number of users under the age of 13 on Instagram, the proposal for an alternative \u201cmay do more harm than good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats told Facebook on Monday they&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33672,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33671\/revisions\/33672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}