{"id":18408,"date":"2022-03-02T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/02\/news-12141\/"},"modified":"2022-03-02T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:10:13","slug":"news-12141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/02\/news-12141\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden wants stronger privacy protections, no targeted ads for children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 16:48:01 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

On March 1, US President Joe Biden gave his first State of the Union Address (SOTU)<\/a> speech to Congress. <\/p>\n

In it, Biden highlighted<\/a> the dire need to get help for teens with mental health issues. He demanded tech companies implement more robust privacy protections for kids and teens using their online services, stop targeted advertising geared towards the youth, and stop collecting their data in general.<\/p>\n

“Second, let\u2019s take on mental health. Especially among our children,\u00a0whose lives and education have been turned upside down.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The American Rescue Plan gave schools money to hire teachers and help students make up for lost learning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I urge every parent to make sure your school does just that.\u00a0And we can all play a part\u2014sign up to be a tutor or a mentor.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Children were also struggling before the pandemic. Bullying, violence,\u00a0trauma,\u00a0and the harms of social media.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

As Frances Haugen, who is here with us tonight, has shown, we must hold social media platforms accountable for the national experiment they\u2019re conducting on our children for profit.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to strengthen privacy protections,\u00a0ban targeted advertising to children,\u00a0demand tech companies stop collecting personal data on our\u00a0children.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

And let\u2019s get all Americans the mental health services they need. More people they can turn to\u00a0for help,\u00a0and full parity between\u00a0physical and mental health care.\u00a0“<\/em><\/p>\n

Haugen, also a guest of First Lady Jill Biden, used to work for Facebook as a data scientist and product manager before turning into a whistleblower. She was responsible for a series of explosive revelations<\/a> made by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) last year, sourced from internal data she leaked. The White House release called<\/a> Haugen an “advocate for more humanity and transparency across the tech and social media industry, especially as it relates to teen mental health.”<\/p>\n

Cecilia Kang (@ceciliakang<\/a>), a tech reporter for the New York Times and author of the book, “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination,” calls the highlighting of targeted advertising on kids in a SOTU speech “progress.”<\/p>\n

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So some real talk here: passing legislation now amid multiple crises will be hard. I\u2019ve seen dozens of privacy hills nowhere.<\/p>\n

BUT the focus on kids is bipartisan. And fact that \u201ctargeted advertising\u201d made it into a SOTU speech feels like progress – if not now, inevitably https:\/\/t.co\/G0J07nhSjD<\/a><\/p>\n

— Cecilia Kang (@ceciliakang) March 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n