Health Secretary Hits Out at Facebook's New App, Says 'Stay Away From My Kids' (theguardian.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday December 5, 2017 @08:55AM from the stating-the-obvious dept.

Jeremy Hunt has publicly attacked Facebook for releasing a version of its Messenger app aimed at children, and called on the social media company to "stay away from my kids." From a report: The health secretary accused the company of "targeting younger children" after Facebook announced on Monday that it was conducting trials of an app called Messenger Kids in the US, which is designed to be used by pre-teens. He said the company was failing to act responsibly despite having assured the government that it would not target its service at children, who can only use the main social media website if they are over 13.

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when we have kids... by b0s0z0ku · 2017-12-05 09:04 · Score: 3, Interesting

When we have kids, the rule will be:
(1) No use of Facebook till they're grown up
(2) No pictures/tagging of them on Facebook until the same age
Why? Because children don't have enough knowledge to know whether they want to add their faces and identities to the largest corporate facial recognition database in the world.
Not afraid of "predators", other than the corporate variety.