“We are way too early in the field to have a unified set of product features that work for everybody,” he wrote, “but we can at least encourage thoughtful design.”
Stamos also said that developers should be required by law to have child safety measures that are age-dependant.Ī 6-year-old, after all, needs different guardrails than a 16-year-old.
If device makers required ages at setup, Stamos wrote, then app stores could use that likely more reliable information to filter out underage users, rather than relying on their own insufficient age gates. The calculated age (rounded to year) should be provided via API to every app,” Stamos suggested. “Require mobile devices (phones and tablets) sold in the US to include a flow, triggered during initial setup, that asks if the primary user is a child and stores their birthdate locally. If lawmakers really wanted to keep kids off of those apps in a way that wasn’t so easy to circumvent, they might be better served focusing on a different point in the tech stack. Protocol reports that Stamos will make his suggestion to Congress when he testifies on Thursday. But he says there is a simple way Apple and Google could help. It’s no use asking their birthdate during app setup, as kids can obviously just put in a fake date.
The suggestion comes from a somewhat ironic source – Facebook’s former head of security…Īlex Stamos, now director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, says apps themselves struggle to stop kids from using them. A relatively simple change to the iPhone setup process would mean Apple could keep kids safe from social media apps, along with any other apps that shouldn’t be used by children.
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