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Product features, defaults and parental-consent gates aimed at protecting under-18 users on social platforms.
Common Sense Media rated ChatGPT for Teens an 'Unacceptable Risk' after testers who said they were 13 stayed out of teen mode across about 1,000 prompts. OpenAI introduced College Planner for teens the same day, and its safeguards depend on that same age check.
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Adam Mosseri conceded under oath that only a few percent of teens used Take a Break before it was switched on by default. Internal decks and a design director explain why.
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The cash amortises over a decade. The enforceable part is a short list of numbers with an independent auditor attached, agreed by 29 attorneys general without any finding of liability.
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Meta wants rivals to copy the product changes it agreed to with most US state attorneys general, and Snap's Evan Spiegel told the BBC a default daily cap for teens is something his company would implement. He did not say when.
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Impression guarantees signed months ago were priced against platform defaults. The state settlement has now changed those defaults, and the contracts carrying the guarantees contain no clean mechanism for the gap that opens.
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Meta agreed to teen product limits it can live with and to a payment schedule that rewards states for binding its rivals to the same terms. That is how a compliance floor gets set when Congress will not set one.
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Self-attested birthdays are out for adults as well as teens, and Techdirt reads the deal as obliging Meta to collect and keep more data on the teenagers it is meant to protect. That is an odd shape for a privacy remedy.
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The two-hour cap and overnight notification blocks were written to end a US trial, and the UK's work and pensions secretary now expects them in Britain as a matter of course. That is how a settlement becomes a spec.
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Annualised, the money is well under one percent of Meta's revenue. The product defaults filed in Oakland are the part every consumer app with teen users will be measured against.
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Meta withheld 30 percent of the payout unless two rivals ship a one-hour cap, night mode and age assurance. The 52 attorneys general who signed now have a reason to go collect.
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The state's first count rests on a 13-year-old test account and the answers Snap gave Apple's rating rubric, which pulls store listings into consumer protection law.
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A former Meta data scientist testified that a proposal to switch Take a Break on by default was refused. About two in every 1,000 teenage users ever turned it on themselves.
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