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Comment: Facebook's plan for children's Instagram elicits backlash from states as Congress mulls action on online privacy

By Mike Swift ( May 11, 2021, 21:22 GMT | Comment) -- The shot across Facebook's bow fired by 44 attorneys general on Monday over the social networking giant's interest in launching a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13 is a significant statement of regulatory risk for the company. The proposal today by a bipartisan duo of US senators to expand the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act to young teens up to age 15 is a second loud signal that regulators and lawmakers — irrespective of political party — are closely attuned to privacy issues around children.The two names at the top of the strongly worded warning Facebook received Monday from 44 attorneys general opposing the company’s plans to launch an Instagram for children under 13 would have been instantly familiar to the company’s policy chiefs....

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