In the News
2024

Instagram to automatically put teens into private accounts with increased restrictions and parental controls

"Today’s PR exercise falls short of the safety by design and accountability that young people and their parents deserve and only meaningful policy action can guarantee," Nicole Gill, cofounder and executive director of Accountable Tech, wrote in a statement. "Meta’s business model is built on addicting its users and mining their data for profit; no amount of parental and teen controls Meta is proposing will change that.”

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CBC Canada
Sep 18, 2024
How Instagram is now different for teen users

Nicole Gill the co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit Accountable Tech, said Instagram is trying to show it can self-regulate to avoid others stepping in to regulate.

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Associated Press
Sep 18, 2024
Instagram makes teen accounts private as pressure mounts on the app to protect children

Nicole Gill, the co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit Accountable Tech, called Instagram’s announcement the “latest attempt to avoid actual independent oversight and regulation and instead continue to self-regulate, jeopardizing the health, safety, and privacy of young people...”

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