Zuckerberg wants Apple and Google to play bigger role in child safety

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has come to congress today with a clear vision – that Apple and Google could play a bigger role in keeping children off platforms or ensuring they have age appropriate experiences on social apps.

Zuckerberg says Apple and Google’s app stores could be the “easiest” and “right” place to check the age of child users or let parents verify themselves, rather than have to upload ID to many different apps.

He adds that if the two giants’ app stores already require parental consent when children make payments in apps, “it should be pretty trivial to pass a law that requires them to make it so that parents have control any time a child downloads an app and offers consent of that”.

Senator Amy Klobuchar responds that such processes aren’t simple enough for parents – and the court rooms and halls of Congress offer them a smoother path for protecting their kids online.

Source:BBC