Chinese short-video making app TikTok has expanded a privacy feature
where parents will have more options over what their children can see and
restrict comments on their content.
Chinese
short-video making app TikTok has expanded a privacy feature where parents will
have more options over what their children can see and restrict comments on
their content.
Parents will now
be able to restrict who can comment on their kids' videos, who can view their
account and who can see what videos they've liked.
Parents will also
be able to stop their kids from searching for videos, users, hashtags or
sounds.
TikTok
already offers the ability for parents to turn off or limit direct messages,
reports The Verge.
The new options
are all part of TikTok's Family Pairing feature.
The update is a
big step from TikTok.
In February 2019,
the company paid $5.7 million to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over
alleged violations of a children's privacy law.
In April this
year, the short video-sharing platform announced to introduce 'Family Pairing'
which gives parents more control over their children, by linking their own
account with their kids, with a caveat that children have to approve this.
The move gives
parents more control over the user activity of their kids as they can set
controls on 'Screen Time Management', 'Direct Messages' and 'Restricted Mode'.
However, parents
still need to get their kids' approval to agree to have their accounts linked
under the new system.
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