Apple unveils updates to help parents protect kids and teens online, such as easier Child Accounts setup, stronger defaults, and granular App Store age ratings
Apple today announced a sweeping set of updates aimed at helping parents protect kids and teens online, as part of its broader push …
Apple unveils new child safety features, including updated age ratings, simplified setup for Child Accounts, and an API to let developers confirm age range
This is excellent news!! Will definitely be adopting this API in AltStore — https://www.macrumors.com/... Threads: Casey Newton / @crumbler : Wrote about Apple's clever answer to the child safety l...
Stanford researchers: LAION-5B, a dataset of 5B+ images used by Stability AI and others, contains 1,008+ instances of CSAM, possibly helping AI to generate CSAM
most prominently, Stable Diffusion 1.5—to see to what degree CSAM itself might be present in the training data. https://purl.stanford.edu/... Alex Stamos / @alex.stamos : Lots of people have worried a...
Child content creators, or “kidfluencers”, some of whom make $20M+/year, show that protecting kids from labor exploitation is difficult in the social media age
not necessarily by the master sweep, but by their parents. … X: Hollis Robbins / @anecdotal : An excellent & urgent column by @tylercowen. As children of parent influencers grow up, they may not appre...
Child advocacy group Heat Initiative is starting a $2M US ad campaign calling on Apple to detect, report, and remove child sexual abuse materials from iCloud
https://www.wired.com/... Rhys Morgan / @rhysmorgan@mastodon.social : @lapcatsoftware So clear that office politics played a part in this. Just baffling they ever announced it. Erik Jonker / @ErikJon...
Roblox files S-1 for its IPO, reports losses of $206M on $589M in revenue, 31.1M DAU, and 22.2B engaged hours, up 122% YoY, for the first nine months of 2020
here's what we learned from the most recent wave of IPO filings Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : Roblox Files IPO Amid Surge in Videogame Spending Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch : What is Roblox ...
US AG and officials from UK and Australia call on Facebook to stop plans for end-to-end encryption across its messaging apps, citing public safety risks
not just for us, but also for the billions living under tyranny who can't. https://twitter.com/... Chris Daw QC / @crimlawuk : If the authorities need to have the ability to invade privacy online, pur...
Child stars on Instagram and YouTube aren't being protected by child labor laws, which were designed to prevent exploitation by parents and employers
‘Kidfluencers’ are earning millions on social media, but who owns that money? — They open boxes, play with toys, pull pranks and make slime. Tweets: @juliacarriew , @juliacarriew , @juliacarriew , @...
Sources: YouTube removed four videos from Alex Jones' channel for hate speech and child endangerment, but counted the takedowns as one strike toward the channel
but he's still not banned Mark Wycislik-Wilson / BetaNews : YouTube slaps Alex Jones with another strike and removes Infowars founder's videos NBC Bay Area : YouTube Issues Warning to Infowars Founder...