US EditionUtah just gave Mark Zuckerberg a big win. But other tech giants aren’t so happy
- Two Senate Judiciary Committee members plan to introduce a bipartisan bill mandating tech companies to report and remove child sexual abuse material, creating a Child Online Protection Board and strengthening company responsibilities regarding such material.
- Critics argue that the proposed legislation could lead to weakened encryption, as companies may opt to eliminate these services to avoid liability while also expressing concerns over privacy and First Amendment rights.
- Utah passed a law requiring app stores to verify users' ages before allowing minors to download apps, aiming to protect children online, but it faces pushback regarding privacy and legal issues.
- Meta and other tech companies support the Utah law for age verification while voicing concerns about potential privacy issues.
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Utah just gave Mark Zuckerberg a big win. But other tech giants aren’t so happy
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told lawmakers in a Congressional hearing last January that it didn’t make sense for his platforms to verify how old their users are in order to serve them age-appropriate experiences. Instead, that responsibility should lie with app stores, he said.
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cybernoz.comLegislative push for child online safety runs afoul of encryption advocates (again)
Two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are preparing to introduce a bipartisan bill that would mandate tech companies to more swiftly report and remove child sexual abuse material hosted on their platforms, but critics warn it could result in the weakening or elimination of encrypted messaging services that many Americans rely on. The Stop CSAM Act, first introduced in 2023 by Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., would impo…
Arturo Béjar: “The algorithm of networks is a stream of direct damage to our children’s brain”
Facebook hired Arturo Béjar in 2009 to protect the users of the social network. He was responsible for protection and care of the company until 2015 and in 2019 he returned to Meta (who owns Instagram and Whatsapp as well) as a consultant. He left the company when he found that despite the reports he sent to Mark Zuckerberg himself warning of the harm being inflicted on minors, not enough was done to prevent it. In 2023 he appeared in a committe…
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