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Meta Sued Over Features That Hook Children to Instagram, Facebook

29 octobre 2023 / noflux

“It’s unusual for so many states to come together to sue a tech giant for consumer harms. The coordination shows states are prioritizing the issue of children and online safety and combining legal resources to fight Meta, just as states had previously done for cases against Big Tobacco and Big Pharma companies. “Just like Big Tobacco and vaping companies have done in years past, Meta chose to maximize its profits at the expense of public health, specifically harming the health of the youngest among us,” Phil Weiser, Colorado’s attorney general, said in a statement.
Lawmakers around the globe have been trying to rein in platforms like Instagram and TikTok on behalf of children. Over the past few years, Britain, followed by states like California and Utah, passed laws to require social media platforms to boost privacy and safety protections for minors online. The Utah law, among other things, would require social media apps to turn off notifications by default for minors overnight to reduce interruptions to children’s sleep.”

Source : Meta Sued Over Features That Hook Children to Instagram, Facebook – The New York Times

Is Social Media Addictive? Here’s What the Science Says

29 octobre 2023 / noflux

“Dr. Michael Rich, the director of the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital, said he discouraged the use of the word “addiction” because the internet, if used effectively and with limits, was not merely useful but also essential to everyday life. “I prefer the term ‘Problematic Internet Media Use,” he said, a term that has gained currency in recent years.
Dr. Greenfield agreed that there clearly are valuable uses for the internet and that the definition of how much is too much can vary. But he said there also were clearly cases where excessive use interferes with school, sleep and other vital aspects of a healthy life. Too many young consumers “can’t put it down,” he said. “The internet is a giant hypodermic, and the content, including social media like Meta, are the psychoactive drugs.””

Source : Is Social Media Addictive? Here’s What the Science Says. – The New York Times

Gadget sécuritaire: Le traçage GPS s’impose dans les préaux

14 mai 2023 / noflux

“Le pistage des enfants en temps réel, parfois à l’aide de balises utilisées à leur insu, fait l’objet d’une discussion au forum national Jeunes et médias ce mardi 9 mai à Berne. Carole Barraud Vial, intervenante en prévention et chargée de projets au sein de la fondation Action Innocence, est l’une des expertes invitées à s’exprimer. «Le traçage de la position pourrait se justifier de manière exceptionnelle, par exemple si on emmène son enfant dans un festival. Mais il faut se demander à quoi il se substitue», souligne-t-elle. Les bracelets d’identification, avec un nom et un numéro à contacter, sont un exemple de solution.”

Source : Gadget sécuritaire: Le traçage GPS s’impose dans les préaux | 24 heures

1 décembre 2020 / noflux

“The new report argues that YouTube hasn’t done enough. Researchers collected more than 1,600 videos from 191 parents that their children, all younger than 8, watched on YouTube’s main site this year. Among the findings: Ads were present on 95% of the videos in the study. A fifth of the ads were categorized as age inappropriate — a bourbon commercial on a nail painting video for girls; another ad, during a video game clip, that asked, “should the U.S. deport illegal immigrants?””

Source : Kids on YouTube See Many Ads, Few Educational Videos: Study – Bloomberg

22 octobre 2019 / noflux

“Le temps d’écran n’est pas seulement excessif, il est extravagant. Aux Etats-Unis, on est à près de trois heures par jour à 3 ans, quatre heures quarante entre 8 et 12 ans et six heures quarante entre 13 et 18 ans. En France, les enfants de 6 à 17 ans passaient en moyenne, en 2015, quatre heures et onze minutes par jour devant un écran, selon l’étude Esteban menée par Santé publique France. D’autres données diffèrent un peu, mais elles sont toutes dans des fourchettes équivalentes, et, dans tous les cas, dans des proportions très élevées. Seulement 6 % à 10 % des enfants ne sont pas touchés.”

Source : Michel Desmurget : « La multiplication des écrans engendre une décérébration à grande échelle »

11 décembre 2017 / noflux

«The children in the videos appeared to be younger than 13 years old, the minimum age for registering an account on YouTube. The videos themselves did not have sexual themes, but showed children emulating their favourite YouTube stars by, for instance, reviewing toys or showing their « outfit of the day.
The explicit comments on these videos were passed on to the company using its form to report child endangerment – the same form that is available to general users.
Over a period of several weeks, five of the comments were deleted, but no action was taken against the remaining 23 until Trending contacted the company and provided a full list ».

Source : Glitch in YouTube’s tool for tracking obscene comments – BBC News

9 novembre 2017 / noflux

«What concerns me is not just the violence being done to children here, although that concerns me deeply. What concerns me is that this is just one aspect of a kind of infrastructural violence being done to all of us, all of the time, and we’re still struggling to find a way to even talk about it, to describe its mechanisms and its actions and its effects. As I said at the beginning of this essay: this is being done by people and by things and by a combination of things and people. Responsibility for its out»

Source : Something is wrong on the internet – James Bridle – Medium

8 décembre 2016 / noflux

« Ces jouets technologiques peuvent être contrôlés grâce à un smartphone et peuvent être utilisés pour écouter ou même parler aux enfants. Jusque-là, rien d’anormal, mais les associations insistent sur le fait qu’un détournement des applications à des fins malveillantes pourrait avoir des conséquences tragiques. On pense alors au harcèlement mais également à la pédocriminalité, dans la mesure où les jouets n’ont pas de protection contre les appareils Bluetooth tiers qui voudraient se connecter à eux : n’importe qui pourrait, d’après ces associations, prendre le contrôle de ces jouets indiscrets.
De plus, les termes et les conditions d’utilisation semblent être particulièrement illégaux : d’après l’Association des Consommateurs Norvégienne, Genesis Toys utilise les données récoltées par les jouets à des fins de marketing, mais laisse également des tiers en faire usage — notamment Nuance ».

Source : Noël glauque : ces jouets mal sécurisés collectent des données sur vos enfants – Tech – Numerama

Étiquette : children

Meta Sued Over Features That Hook Children to Instagram, Facebook

Is Social Media Addictive? Here’s What the Science Says

Gadget sécuritaire: Le traçage GPS s’impose dans les préaux

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