Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 19:24
The Instagram Social Network has announced a series of novelties to protect its young users, including a function that stands out Prevents adults to be able to write direct messages to children under the age of 18 if they do not follow themas well as the use of automatic learning to prevent minors from being at their age of the profile.
When an adult tries to send a message to a teenager who in turn does not follow him, Receive a notification that it is not possible to send a direct messageWith the aim of protecting adolescents against unwanted contact with other adults, “as Instagram announced in a statement sent to Europe Press.
This functionality is based on the ability to Age prediction by automatic learning technology (‘Machine Learning’), and in the era that people introduce when they are admitted. Since the social network works in the end -end -coding, Instagram does this without access to the content of direct messages.
The social network, owned by Facebook, has also announced that it starts to study the form of the form in the coming weeks obstruct adults who have shown potentially suspicious behavior can communicate with adolescents.
The platform regards various functionalities such as Limit these adults so that they do not see adolescent accounts Avoid in ‘proposed users’ to discover adolescents in rolls or on the Explore tab and automatically hides their comments about the publications of adolescents.
Other Instagram novelties are aimed at Brave teenagers to make their private accounts To improve your protection.
That is why the platform recently recorded a new step in the Accound Registration for children under the age of 18 who have the Option to choose between a public or private accountInform them about what the adjustments mean.
Children under the age of 18 can continue to opt for a public account if they decide after knowing the options. If the teenager does not choose the ‘private’ option when it is registered, Instagram will later send a notification in which the Advantages of a private account And it will be remembered that they must check their configuration.
The company also made progress that “additional measures are appreciated to protect young people on Instagram they can take Extra privacy settings«.
In Spain it is necessary to have At least 14 years old To use Instagram and new users are asked to enter their age when they are registered on the platform for the first time.
Instagram watch Avoid people in their age And for this he has announced that he is developing new technologies on the basis of automatic learning to maintain the safety of adolescents and to apply new functionalities according to their age.
