The Senate Judiciary Committee is currently conducting a hearing on child exploitation, featuring executives from Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Discord.
Some of the issues that children face on social media that are being touched on in the hearing include sexual predators, addictive features, suicide and eating disorders, unrealistic beauty standards, and bullying.
This has caused Congress to want tighter regulation and protection for social media.
Alan Bavosa, VP of Security Products at Appdome had this to say:
“The issues raised at the congressional hearings are important in ensuring that more safeguards are put in place by social media apps and platforms to protect children and loved ones. Core to this discussion is protecting consumer privacy and data. This fundamentally means protecting it in every form and every place it’s stored, transmitted and used by mobile apps.”
For reference, Appdome, a prominent mobile cybersecurity automation platform, provides app owners and DevOps teams with advanced protections to proactively mitigate mobile threats.
Social media has become a very toxic place. And if social media were say cigarettes or something like that, there would be regulations either enacted or already in place. So besides protecting data, we have to protect the people from harm from social media before it is too late.
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Congress Holds Hearings On Child Exploitation With Social Media Companies In The Spotlight
The Senate Judiciary Committee is currently conducting a hearing on child exploitation, featuring executives from Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Discord.
Some of the issues that children face on social media that are being touched on in the hearing include sexual predators, addictive features, suicide and eating disorders, unrealistic beauty standards, and bullying.
This has caused Congress to want tighter regulation and protection for social media.
Alan Bavosa, VP of Security Products at Appdome had this to say:
“The issues raised at the congressional hearings are important in ensuring that more safeguards are put in place by social media apps and platforms to protect children and loved ones. Core to this discussion is protecting consumer privacy and data. This fundamentally means protecting it in every form and every place it’s stored, transmitted and used by mobile apps.”
For reference, Appdome, a prominent mobile cybersecurity automation platform, provides app owners and DevOps teams with advanced protections to proactively mitigate mobile threats.
Social media has become a very toxic place. And if social media were say cigarettes or something like that, there would be regulations either enacted or already in place. So besides protecting data, we have to protect the people from harm from social media before it is too late.
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