Pinterest Launches Many New Features To Ensure Children's Safety
JAKARTA - Following an investigation from NBC News last month, which revealed how pedophiliates used the Pinterest platform to create boards for young girls, Pinterest has finally launched a new feature to provide more security on its platform.
This change was launched for accounts whose owners are still 16 years old and under. First, teenage accounts or children under the age of 16 will be privated automatically by Pinterest. This will allow no strangers to see their child profiles and attack their private space.
Furthermore, Pinterest will make the board and Pin of children under the age of 16 invisible or accessed by anyone except their own owner. For this reason, Pinterest aims to launch the ability to be able to determine who is allowed to see your posts.
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Based on the announcement, how this feature works is like a privacy feature on other social media, where there will be a notification if someone will send a message to you. From there, you can determine whether you will receive the message or reject it.
Pinterest will also not present facial filters, because it is considered to be able to change your appearance and can often begin to change your way of thinking about yourself. However, Pinterest has 'Virtual Trial' tools to play with eye makeup and lipstick color without damaging the face.
Furthermore, Pinterest has a unique policy that does not allow people to embarrass themselves on the platform and that also applies to brands. For example, Pinterest will not issue very dangerous weight loss ads.
Late this month, Pinterest will also offer parents and guardians more options who want to support teens under 18 online. For example, parents will have the ability to ask their teens for codewords to change certain account settings.
Finally, Pinterest will expand age verification. In addition to asking new users to enter their date of birth, later this month if users try to change their birth date in the app, Pinterest will ask them to submit additional information to our third-party partners to confirm that it is valid.