Meta faces expensive child safety reckoning
Also: Google executives jump ship in race for AI dominance Hello, TechScape readers! Danielle Abril, editor of the Guardian’s Reworked series on AI and the future of work, filling in for Blake Montgomery this week. Major legal battles against Meta over child safety are playing out in courts across the US – and the tech giant is losing. Recent rulings raise big questions about social media…
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is embroiled in costly legal battles over child safety on its platforms. Rulings from courts across the United States have raised significant questions about the extent of responsibility that social media companies bear for the well-being of their youngest users. The tech giant's smart glasses, dubbed 'spy glasses', have also faced intense backlash due to privacy concerns.
Reports suggest that a man was secretly captured on video using Meta's smartglasses, an incident that many have reported as a violation of their privacy. The backlash against Meta's smart glasses is so severe that prominent figures like Bernie Sanders have called for a temporary halt to AI development, citing the potential dangers to humanity.
Meanwhile, the White House's plan to vet potentially dangerous AI remains shrouded in secrecy, adding to the growing controversy surrounding Meta and other tech leaders in the AI race.
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