TikTok rejects Meta ads pushing rivals to join child safety settlement
TikTok rejected Meta ads urging it and YouTube to join Meta’s multibillion-dollar child safety settlement with U.S. states.
Topic: Child Safety
TikTok adds 5 new ways to enforce safety for teen users
Some of the policies were launched last year but have been improved with additional features to increase efficacy.
New Meta privacy updates for teens
New Facebook and Instagram teen users will automatically be opted in, while current users will need to manually select the settings.
Google heightens adult ad policy enforcement after Reuters finds illicit ads
“Spotty” enforcement can result in inappropriate ads being shown to minors and an unfair advantage for advertisers that slip through the cracks.
Google makes it easier to remove images of kids from the search results
This may come in handy if you work in online reputation management.
Instagram is disabling interest and activity-based targeting of underage users
Advertisers’ targeting options for users under 18 will be limited to age, gender and location.
At Google Images, “G” Is For “Girls In Bathrooms”
The launch of Google Instant last month drew new attention to what Google suggests that people search for — and what it purposely omits to keep things family friendly. But over on Google Images, some of the suggestions that appear as you type are more of the soft-porn variety. Girls Gone Wild On Google Here’s […]
Ask Kids Relaunches With Cute Kids Features
A few days ago, Ask.com relaunched Ask Kids, their search flavored for children. The Ask.com blog just wrote about the launch last night. Ask.com said the Ask Kids site was “built from the ground-up, with our own search technology.” It seems like Ask.com added a “very strict” list of which sites are allowed in the […]
Porn Company Wants Google & Yahoo To Protect Kids From Pornography
Porn studio wants Google, Yahoo to protect kids from adult video from the AFP reports Steven Hirsch, the co-founder of Vivid Entertainment, a pornography company, wants Google and Yahoo to do more in protecting children from accessing pornographic content. Steven Hirsch said: None of the search engines and portals, but particularly Yahoo and Google, has […]
Quintura For Kids Launched
I discussed Quintura in November – if you recall it’s a search engine that provides searchers with a tag cloud, which if they mouse over the tags it will display results. Well, today they launched Quintura for kids as a beta release. It works along the same lines as the adult version, with a search […]