Amaya Toman The safety of children and adolescents on the Internet is very important. A variety of technology companies are also aware of this, and have recently begun to take steps to ensure greater safety and protection of children's privacy. Google has also recently joined these companies, which has made several changes in this direction both in its search and on the YouTube platform.
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Twitch wants to better inform streamers
The operators of the popular streaming platform Twitch have decided to start providing streamers with more detailed and comprehensive information regarding possible violations of Twitch's terms of use. Starting this week, Twitch will also include the name and date of the content on which the ban was issued in terms of ban reports. Although this is at least a small step forward compared to the conditions that prevailed in this direction until now, it does not appear that Twitch operators have any plans to include any further details in these reports in the future.
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However, thanks to this improvement, creators will be able to get a slightly more accurate idea of what the mentioned violation of the terms of use of the Twitch platform might have been, and possibly avoid errors of this type in time in the future. Until now, the ban notification system worked in such a way that the creator only learned from the relevant places what rule he had broken. Especially for those who stream often and for a long time, this was very general information, based on which it was usually not possible to make a joke about what exactly the rules of use of Twitch were violated.
Google takes steps to protect minors and minor users
Yesterday, Google announced several new changes to, among other things, provide better protection for users under the age of eighteen. Google will now allow minors, or their parents or legal guardians, to request the removal of their photos from search results within the Google Images service. This is a very important step on Google's part. This technological giant has not developed any significant activity in this direction until now. In addition to the aforementioned news, Google also announced yesterday that it will soon begin to block the publication of targeted advertising based on age, gender or interests to users under the age of eighteen.
But the changes that Google is introducing are not limited to its search engine. The YouTube platform, which is also owned by Google, will also be affected by the new changes. For example, there will be a change in the default settings when recording videos for underage users, when a variant will be automatically selected that will preserve the user's privacy as much as possible. The YouTube platform will also automatically disable autoplay for underage users, as well as enable helpful tools such as reminders to take a break after watching YouTube videos for a certain amount of time. Google is not the only technology company that has recently implemented measures aimed at greater security and protection of the privacy of children and adolescents. Takes measures in this direction for example also Apple, which recently introduced several features aimed at protecting children.
