1/13/2024 0 Comments Techcrunch tiktok![]() And they’re well ahead of Snapchat, which has yet to launch its own parental controls. Young people have an even harder time with managing their screen time use, The WSJ reported, because their brain’s prefrontal cortex - which targets impulse control and decision-making - isn’t fully developed until age 25.Īrguably, TikTok’s screen time tools, including those for minor children, are more robust than those on rival platforms like Instagram and YouTube due to the granularity of TikTok’s controls. ![]() ![]() While the study focused on college students and young adults, not kids, it found that about 5.9% of TikTok users may have “significant problematic use.” The report cited a widely reported scientific study that examined how the app’s algorithm activates the reward centers of the brain - including those associated with addiction. The rollout of new screen time features follows a recent April 2022 investigation by the Wall Street Journal into the impact TikTok is having on children’s brains. parents were aware of digital parental controls but only around a third actually used them. A 2020/2021 Ofcom study, for instance, suggested that around six in 10 U.K. In other markets, the adoption of parental controls may be even lower. parents were using parental control apps and only 44% supervised children’s use of devices. A 2021 Kaspersky study found only half of U.S. Millennial and Gen X users - today’s parents - may have grown up with technology or used it throughout the majority of their adult lives, but a surprising number still do not supervise their children’s screen time and digital device usage. That such a feature even needs to exist suggests that many parents have still not bothered to configure TikTok’s existing parental controls, leaving the company to stand in as the digital parent. Going forward, if a minor has been on the app for more than 100 minutes in a single day, TikTok will remind them of its new screen time limits tool the next time they open the app. We’ll be following along to see how it all goes down.While the new screen time tools are rolling out to global users of any age, TikTok says it’s also introducing new screen time prompts for minor users between the ages of 13 and 17. There are a ton of unknowns about how this will all play out, but the one certainty is that Montana’s newest law is sure to face some strong challenges in court in the coming months. TikTok’s users are likely to push back too, and the company has already been leveraging its enthusiastic user base to oppose the Montana law. lest they face the logistical nightmare of more state legislatures issuing their own bans against TikTok or other apps. Google and Apple are likely to push back on state-level laws that limit where apps can be downloaded within the U.S. Whether that would even be feasible remains to be seen. While restrictions on the use of TikTok on government devices and campus networks are already commonplace, Montana’s ban is designed to block app stores from distributing the app to any users within the state. Lawmakers in Montana unveiled the TikTok ban bill earlier this year, kicking off a firestorm of debate around the ban and other proposals to limit the app’s use in the U.S. ![]() While there is no evidence that TikTok or its parent company ByteDance have ever shared the app’s information with the Chinese government, TikTok has admitted to an incident in which employees spied on journalists’ locations using app data - a scandal that’s often cited in conversations around the app and privacy concerns.
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