Just been on @bbcworld news channel discussing with Kasia Madera about Instagram’s new rollout of a feature that alerts parents if their kids are searching for self-harm and suicide-related content (which, let’s be honest, they’re not doing that…)

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Just been on @bbcworld news channel discussing with Kasia Madera about Instagram’s new rollout of a feature that alerts parents if their kids are searching for self-harm and suicide-related content (which, let’s be honest, they’re not doing that…)

If we’re being real, it’s much easier to find that kind of content on the internet, and while Meta definitely knows what users are searching for on their mobile device web browsers, it would be going down a slippery slope for us to permit further tracking and surveillance of children and young people, and eventually break GDPR etc.

So the only solution I can actually see would be to skip over that and just let the under-16s social media ban go through.

I’ll be on @BBC5Live in an hour to discuss the same thing.

#technology #technews #Instagram #privacy #socialmediaban #meta