22 Jul 2024

Protecting children from the tech giants

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 22 July 2024

Parents struggle to protect their children from online content kids have access to using products developed by Google, Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies.  

We can't manage our way out of  harm to children online by  focusing on content moderation says Dr Ravi Iyer, a  psychologist at the University of Southern California.

To protect our children from what tech giants are doing, Dr Iyer says  we're going to need help from the tech giants themselves.

He's an advocate for device-based age verification systems built into tech that would protect children across  all digital platforms. Dr Ravi Iyer explains what it is and how it works.    

Boy in his bed using smartphone to make a video call. (Photo by CONCEPTUAL IMAGES/SCIENCE PHOTO / PHR / Science Photo Library via AFP)

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