The social network Instagram is increasing the safety of minors with new live-streaming restrictions, as parents must provide consent.

Instagram Live will be controlled by parents with the new security measures. On the other hand, teens will also not be able to watch live videos without permission.

“The technology company strengthens the protection of young people” under 16. Teen accounts, as is known, are created for users who have different settings than standard accounts. This is because “to make any changes to the settings, their owners need the permission of an adult.”

They are private accounts by default; This means that children and minors who use them are not authorized to “accept new followers, while people who don’t follow them will not be able to view the content they post, much less interact with them.”

To provide protection against bots and malicious users, the direct message settings are also changing for teen accounts.

The measure seeks to raise awareness about security, maintaining the default settings for teens, while also providing them with more age-appropriate experiences.

Regarding Instagram Live, Meta “will require minors under 16 to have adult consent to disable the feature that blurs images suspected of containing nudity in direct messages.”

The updates will take effect in the coming months, giving parents greater peace of mind when their teens use Meta’s apps.

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Instagram will give parents greater control over the content that minors under 18 have access to with the launch of the teen account.

The platform indicated this Tuesday that the accounts of users under 18 will become private. The objective is to reinforce the privacy of users and avoid negative consequences.

Among the recent announcements by Instagram is also the elimination of notifications for minors from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. “to allow for better rest in this age group.”

Likewise, the social network will add “more supervision tools for adults, such as a function that allows parents to see the accounts with which their children have recently exchanged messages.”

In this regard, they have clarified that users under 16 years of age “will only be able to change these settings with the permission of their parents.”

Parents will have access to the topics their children view most frequently, although they will not be able to see their messages.

Teenagers will see restricted settings for sensitive content. However, since Instagram has no way to verify a user’s age so far, a teenager could lie about this information and bypass the controls.

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