The under-16s may soon have to have parental permission to join social media platforms under a proposal by the federal government to introduce a new online privacy code to better protect children and teenagers.
The legislation would require social media companies, under law, to act in the best interests of children when accessing their data.If those social media companies are using children's data to put before them content that is destructive, that is plainly not in the best interests of children, those social media companies would be in breach of the legislation and could face penalties of up to 10 per cent of their entire Australian revenue," he said.
Rys Farthing, the head of data policy at the organisation, said similar legislation has been introduced in the UK this year, and had already had positive results.
It's too late the affected by the social media children become criminal generation.
Will this be the same way that a computer asks if you’re a robot? You know kids will still access whatever they want without parents approval right?
Something for after the election. All very well protecting the children, but what about the rest of us? We're as powerless as children to cope with the excesses of politicians and their big-money sponsors.
Problem is kids are 100 times internet smarter than parents. Parents got no chance
Yeah! That'll work, NOT
There are many things on the internet which children should explain to their parents before they get misinterpreted.
Facebook knowingly allows criminals to use fake catfish accounts to run frauds. Report to Facebook and they say they can’t detect as fake accounts that have no history or friends and hundreds of outgoing messages.
Good.