Meta to expand tech safeguards for teens in Europe, US Facebook users
Meta Platforms will expand safeguards for teen accounts to 27 European Union countries and to Facebook in the United States. The company is using advanced artificial intelligence to detect underage accounts and strengthen circumvention measures.
Meta Platforms is expanding tech safeguards for teen accounts to 27 European Union countries and to Facebook in the United States. The U.S. tech giant is facing pressure from regulators worldwide to better protect young people online. Meta last year rolled out technology to proactively find accounts it suspects to be teens and place them in Teen Account protections. This technology will be expanded to Facebook in the United States for the first time, with the UK and EU to follow in June. Meta is using advanced artificial intelligence to detect underage accounts beyond simple admissions of age, analyzing entire profiles for contextual clues. The company is also strengthening circumvention measures to prevent new accounts from users Meta suspects are underage.
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