Instagram announces the deployment starting this Thursday of several new prevention and protection tools for young users and their parents. Nudity control is strengthened with detection features enabled by default for accounts under 18 years old.
The app would manage to detect, a priori, risky profiles and prevent them from interacting with adolescents by removing the “Write” button which allows you to send a private message. In 2023, reports of blackmail have exploded. The Office for Minors (Ofmin), attached to the Ministry of the Interior, has identified 12,000, compared to barely ten three years ago. A message warns of the consequences of sending a naked photo. The chosen form, the blurring filter, has an educational purpose, because it allows young people to become aware of the content, a nude, that they are about to publish or consult. “This technology will be supplemented by raising awareness of fake profiles that send malicious photos,” adds Capucine Tuffier, responsible for child protection at Meta.