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Drug dealers are using Snapchat and Instagram to find customers, despite rules against it.
Insider found two dozen fentanyl-related deaths in which Snapchat apparently played a role in the transaction.
Instagram blamed a technical bug for failing to remove dozens of flagged accounts promoting pills.
One of the last acts in Devin Norring s short life took place on Snapchat.
The 19-year-old in Hastings, Minnesota, connected with a drug dealer on the social-media app last year and arranged to buy a prescription pain pill. But the pill that the dealer delivered was packed with fentanyl, an opiate so powerful that Norring died shortly after taking it.
Android Community
March 17, 2021
A year into this pandemic, a lot has changed already. Most people around the world are staying at home. The enterprise, business, and education have shifted in several ways. The world is surviving, adapting, and thriving. Even technology has changed in time of Covid. We’ve shared with you before what has happened so far but more have happened since then. As for Google, it continues to develop new products and services to ensure the whole family is provided the right tools for work, school, business, or entertainment.
Google will continue to help families. The threat of the coronavirus is still not over so with most people staying at home, we need to adapt further. The tech giant is helping the parents and guardians to provide children a safer experience online.
Google is launching a families website featuring resources designed to help parents teach kids about tech and screen time from PBS Kids, Sesame Workshop and meditation platform Headspace.
Google s new family website will help you keep your kids safe online
Google has launched a new website for parents on families.google today. But if you were hoping for a whole slew of new and improved parental controls for Android, Chromebooks, and Google Accounts all collected in one central place on the web, you might be disappointed. The website is merely a resource that gives parents an overview of which tools there are for safeguarding their kids online and what they need to look out for.
Google Families is mainly aimed at parents whose kids are just getting started with their online life. Google says it s comprised of detailed guides that spell out how to approach your kids’ technology use from organizations like Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, Family Online Safety Institute, Headspace, PBS KIDS and Sesame Workshop. And of course, you can also find details on Google s own family and kids products on the site, including the company s parental controls tool Family Link.
What you need to know
Google has launched a new website that aims to serve as a one-stop technology resource for families.
It is also rolling out a bunch of new updates to Family Link, including always allowed apps, parental controls on-device for Android, and an increased catalogue of teacher-approved apps for kids.
The new features will be rolling out to users in the U.S. over the coming weeks.
In September 2017, Google launched Family Link for Android devices, allowing parents to keep their children safe on the internet by managing apps, settings screen time limits, and more. Family Link is now getting a major upgrade to help parents focus more on how their kids use devices.