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Facebook has provided few details about its mission to introduce a kids-aimed version of Instagram, but the company is under fresh scrutiny as a prominent critic of that plan, Sen. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, unveiled a bipartisan bill on Tuesday that would update the United States’ children’s privacy law.
The proposed legislation would expand the age range of children covered under the law and strengthen federal oversight of internet services aimed at kids. It also comes on the heels of a call on May 10 for Facebook to end its kids’ Instagram project from attorneys general of more than 40 U.S. states, among other recent pushback against the plan from lawmakers and child safety advocates.
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The company says it’s adding more control over autoplay in the YouTube Kids app.
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YouTube Kids is a colorful, stripped-down version of YouTube, full of animations, bright colors, and cartoon avatars meant to keep the youngest internet users engaged. When scrolling through the app, kids can see everything from Nickelodeon song mashups to prank series to baking videos a cheerful-seeming microcosm of actual YouTube.
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Фото Getty Images We stand in an informational downpour without an umbrella. Most of the information that overloads us emanates from digital business, including social and other media, and even online commerce. And yet digital business, which created and fuels the informational overload, is uniquely positioned also to mitigate it. What needs to change? Three steps should be taken: exclude the useless, organize the useful and inject impact shares
Exclude the useless. One area that digital business has largely overlooked is finding ways to avoid offering patently unusable information. That algorithms have figured out long ago all our tastes and preferences makes it all the more surprising they still have not figured out what is useless. For example, if you have a teen, you are unlikely to search items for 5-year olds. According to the World Bank, children through age 14 constitute 25% of the world’s population. But even the most soph