Meta has received more than 1.1 million reports of users under the age of 13 on its Instagram platform since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint against the company brought by the attorneys general of 33 states.
Instead, the social media giant “routinely continued to collect” children’s personal information, like their locations and email addresses, without parental permission, in violation of a federal children’s privacy law, according to the court filing. Meta could face hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, in civil penalties should the states prove the allegations.
I was in an antique store with my daughter and we saw a cigarette tin with Joe Camel on it and she didn’t believe me when I said it was a way they marketed cigarettes to kids. She didn’t even understand why Joe Camel appealed to kids. I guess it’s a different age.