​Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement 

​Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement 

Photo of Mark Zuckerberg in front of the justice scale.

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images

Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could have cost it hundreds of billions of dollars.

Under the terms of the settlement, which resolves claims by a larger group of 47 states and several districts and territories, Meta agreed to come up with an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, and must have a false positive rate no higher than 10 percent for users aged 16 to 17, and 3 percent for users aged 13 to 15. The company also agreed to give teens the option to turn off personalized feeds, meaning that they won’t be s …

Read the full story at The Verge.

 

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