Company Metta, the parent of social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, said it will introduce a new safety tool later this year to discourage sending nude and inappropriate images of women and children.
British Broadcasting Corporation The BBC Meta has taken this decision following complaints and criticism from government and police officials that Messenger chats were encrypted by default, reports .
According to Meta, this new feature is completely designed to protect Facebook and Instagram users, especially women and teenagers. Children under the age of 13 are never permitted to use this platform.
Under this feature, children between the ages of 13 and 19 will be unable to receive messages from strangers on Instagram and Messenger. The system will also work on messages that are encrypted, meaning all rights reserved.
End-to-end encryption means that only the sender and receiver can read the messages, with some critics of the decision saying that Meta can detect and report child abuse content in such messages. can’t
They say these platforms should incorporate a technology called client-side scanning to detect child abuse through encrypted apps. More details will be revealed later this year.
Client-side scanning refers to systems on the user’s device that scan messages for matches with child abuse images before they are sent and report any suspicious and illegal content.
Apart from this, the tool will also allow parents to better monitor their children and make it possible to see who can send direct messages to their children.
It should be noted that at the beginning of this month, British authorities said that young people sending nude and inappropriate images have played a significant role in the increase in sex crimes committed by children in England and Wales.
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