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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OpenAI, the AI ​​market leader and developer of ChatGPT, announced last week that it will implement parental controls to supervise children and adolescents’ use of the platform.

This is a reaction to growing social and legal concern “about the potential adverse effects of chatbots on adolescents’ mental health, especially following the recent complaint filed by the parents of a 16-year-old boy who took his own life in California, who hold the GPT-4 model responsible.”

OpenAI issued a statement from its San Francisco headquarters, describing the move as a first step in strengthening its approach, “guided by experts, with the goal of making ChatGPT as useful as possible.”

The new parental control features will go into effect next month and “will allow parents to link their accounts with their children’s accounts, in order to monitor the content of interactions and receive alerts if signs of emotional instability are detected in minors.”

These features involve various mechanisms aimed at improving safety during ChatGPT use by minors, such as the ability for parents to “access their children’s conversation history with the system, as well as sending automatic notifications when artificial intelligence identifies signs of an emotional state that may require intervention.”

The company has been working to detect warning signs and potential emotional dependence of users on AI-based assistants, which could pose a risk to young people’s emotional and social development.

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The network presents useful content in all fields of knowledge. Google continues to work on new functions to protect children and adolescents from inappropriate content while browsing the Internet.

Parental controls are part of these advances that help control not only the sites that minors consult, but also help improve the use of the network by establishing navigation schedules, blocking notifications during study hours, among others.

Online supervision and security tools for minors are part of the company’s commitment, according to Priscila Couto, Program Leader, Trust and Security for Google Latin America.

The safety of children and adolescents on the Internet is a priority for Google

These tools, such as SafeSearch, are, among others, “to promote respect among minors, empower them to explore and learn, and protect them in the digital world.”

Google has launched a new Family Link design, which facilitates supervision and administration by parents regarding the accounts and devices that children and adolescents manage.

Parents or guardians can see a summary of the use by application, manage a browsing time limit, as well as schedule breaks or approve downloads, in addition to blocking websites that they consider suspicious, harmful, or openly containing adult content.

Parent administrators can restrict malicious applications

Google also offers the new function called School Time “that will help children stay focused during school hours. It allows administrators to limit phone use, silence notifications and restrict applications based on different needs.”

On the other hand, with the Be Awesome on the Internet program, the goal is to provide children with tools that allow them to acquire the necessary skills “to preserve their security and act intelligently in the online world.”

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