UK youngsters unwittingly exposing private data Instagram
UK youngsters unwittingly exposing private data Instagram A year-long study showed that youth are "being left to fend for themselves", he said, with around 50% of eight to 11-year-olds agreeing to the ambiguous terms and conditions of social media firms . As a result, according to the commissioner's Growing Up Digital Efficiency, children are giving control of their data to social media firms such as Facebook without accountability. The taskforce found that no child in the focus group could fully understand the terms and conditions of the photo-sharing service Instagram, which was used by more than half of 12- to 15-year-olds and 48% from eight to 11 goes. Years old. The study found that only half of the eight to 11-year-olds also read the words, which ran to more than 5,000 words on 17 pages of text.As Sky News reported, Longfield warned that the "incomprehensible" terms and conditions of social networks make little known to children what they are signing u...