WhatsApp will launch accounts for pre-teens supervised by parents or guardians in the United States, in order to limit their calling and messaging experience for their safety.

The accounts for children under 13 on WhatsApp, which will be implemented globally in the coming months, will be supervised thanks to a new strict application setting and parental controls.

The platform has stated that “these accounts must be created and actively managed by parents or guardians and must remain linked to their own WhatsApp account, a messaging app owned by Meta. Parents will need the phone they purchased for their family member and their own device, side by side, to link their accounts.”

Once this step is completed, the parent or guardian will be able to “control the account and decide who can communicate with it and which groups it can join. These adults can also review message requests from unknown contacts and manage the account’s privacy settings.”

Security measures include end-to-end encryption of conversations. Furthermore, the new parental controls and settings are protected by a parental PIN on the managed device.

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Source: ultimahora

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