… Earlier this week, reports leaked that the White House had told child safety groups and Big Tech companies that it would endorse a slate of children’s online safety laws backed by Sen. Marsha Blackburn R-TN , the coauthor of the Kids Online Safety Act KOSA , as part of an overall preemption package. …
… That age verification has typically required users to either upload credit card information or government ID, or agree to a face scan to estimate their age. “Tech companies have had countless opportunities to keep children safe, yet they have failed to act,” said technology secretary Liz Kendall. “… …
… The company emphasized a few key principles in its presentation of the new child safety features: that parents should be the ones to decide what their kids have access to, that Apple’s recommendations will be shaped by expert research that balances risks and benefits of technology for kids, and tha… …
… Meta’s concern that a 99 percent standard for detecting new CSAM would be impossible to achieve may be mitigated, according to Ackerman, by a court-assigned child safety monitor lowering the standard if they think Meta has done all it reasonably can. …
… Those changes include adding age verification for New Mexico users, prohibiting end-to-end encryption for users under 18 and capping their use to 90 hours per month, limiting engagement-boosting features like infinite scroll and autoplay, and requiring Meta to detect 99 percent of new child sexual … …
… This is security theater, not improved child safety.” California is far from the only place where this issue comes up. …
… But the real winner of their feud may be the guy they’re currently fighting over: a once-obscure New York state assemblyman, who they’ve Streisand-effected into becoming the poster child for AI safety regulation. …
… We are introducing this legislation because we want a childhood where children get to be children. …
… Similarly, with AI, you want to make sure that AI is not creating functional safety challenges. And we’re hearing from our customers that they also want to ensure that they can profess trust in the models. Our UL 3115 came from customers coming to us and saying, as a great example, a child’s toy. …
… Sage even knew a doctor who lost their job after the Children’s Hospital shuttered its pediatric trans care unit. The Children’s Hospital did not respond to a request for comment. …