The Commission Of The European it has started proceedings, the official anti Metës to the alleged violation of the Act, the Services and the Digital (the SEA). The company's Menlo Park, in so far as it seems, has not taken the necessary measures to Facebook and Instagram, to ensure the mental and physical health of minors, as well as the privacy of their own. In addition, an effective tool for determining the age, it is not carried out. It is the examination of a second behind him at the end of April.
Meta risks and sanctions for serious
The opening of the proceedings, the new one is based on the analysis of the report of the assessment of the risk (shipped from the Spot in September, 2023), and the responses to the requests for information sent out by the European Commission in November, 2023 march 2024.
The investigation of a second focus is on three areas. Drawback is that it is designed for the interface and the algorithms of Facebook and Instagram to take advantage of the weaknesses and papërvojën of minors, causing the behavior of dependency, and/or the strengthening of the so-called effect of “out of the rabbit”.
According to the European Commission, the Meta doesn't take too on the measures to prevent the the access of the minors to the content of the unfit. In practice, the actual verification of the age, it is not effective (it counts like they are doing well on TikTok).
Finally, the company's Menlo Park is not applied the measures to be sufficient to ensure the the privacy and security of minorsfor example, through the settings of the default.
Additional information will be collected during the investigation. There is no deadline. If you violate the SEA, the Spot also risks a fine of up to 6% of its income annually to the global.
A spokesperson for the Spot, he said:
We want young people to have the experience of a safe, secure, and appropriate for the age of the internet. We have developed more than 50 tools and policies to protect them. This is a challenge facing the entire sector, and we look forward to sharing the details of our work with the European Commission.
The Meta would be to use a combination of self-report, and analyze IT to determine if your age is, as it has been introduced, when you are logged in. Moreover, the user shall you attempt to change the age, and will have to pass a test, in specific.
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