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Social media companies are trying harder to figure out which users are children.

Social media companies are trying harder to figure out which users are children.

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September 1st, 2026

Social media companies are trying harder to figure out which users are children.

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Meta reached a deal worth 18 billion dollars with US state attorneys general.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฃผ ๋ฒ•๋ฌด์žฅ๊ด€๋“ค๊ณผ 180์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ํ•ฉ์˜๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The deal includes child safety measures, and the key one is age verification.

ํ•ฉ์˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ์—๋Š” ์•„๋™ ์•ˆ์ „ ์กฐ์น˜๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ์ค‘ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ์—ฐ๋ น ํ™•์ธ์ด๋‹ค.

Meta has faced claims about Instagram and Facebook. They were designed to attract children on purpose and harmed their mental health.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ๊ณผ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ์ด ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด์˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๋Œ๋„๋ก ์„ค๊ณ„๋ผ ์ •์‹  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ํ•ด์ณค๋‹ค๋Š” ์ฃผ์žฅ์— ์ง๋ฉดํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

Under the deal, Meta agreed to strengthen age verification technology and receive regular outside audits.

ํ•ฉ์˜์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ น ํ™•์ธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์™ธ๋ถ€ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

There are many ways to check a person's age online.

์˜จ๋ผ์ธ์—์„œ ๋‚˜์ด๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•˜๋‹ค.

Meta promised to accept ID cards and delete them within 30 days.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ์‹ ๋ถ„์ฆ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ณ  30์ผ ์ด๋‚ด์— ์‚ญ์ œํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Google and Meta are also using artificial intelligence (AI) to guess a user's age.

๊ตฌ๊ธ€๊ณผ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ(AI)์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์˜ ๋‚˜์ด๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹๋„ ๋„์ž…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The AI looks at clues like birthday posts, school-related content, and login times.

AI๋Š” ์ƒ์ผ ์ถ•ํ•˜ ๊ฒŒ์‹œ๋ฌผ, ํ•™๊ต ๊ด€๋ จ ๋‚ด์šฉ, ๋กœ๊ทธ์ธ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‹จ์„œ๋ฅผ ๋ถ„์„ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Meta said it also uses visual clues from user photos, such as height or bone structure.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฐ ์‚ฌ์ง„์˜ ํ‚ค๋‚˜ ๋ผˆ ๊ตฌ์กฐ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ์  ๋‹จ์„œ๋„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Roblox requires players to take a video selfie to confirm their age. Then they can chat with other users.

๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค๋Š” ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์™€ ์ฑ„ํŒ…ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๋น„๋””์˜ค ์…€์นด๋ฅผ ์ฐ์–ด ๋‚˜์ด๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋„๋ก ์š”๊ตฌํ•œ๋‹ค.

The company says it deletes the video after checking the age.

ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋‚˜์ด ํ™•์ธ ํ›„ ๋น„๋””์˜ค๋ฅผ ์‚ญ์ œํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

Some experts worry that face age tools may not be accurate for women or certain racial groups.

์ผ๋ถ€ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์–ผ๊ตด ๋‚˜์ด ์ถ”์ • ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด๋‚˜ ํŠน์ • ์ธ์ข… ์ง‘๋‹จ์—์„œ ์ •ํ™•ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ คํ•œ๋‹ค.

Roblox's safety chief said the system can estimate age within one to two years for people between 5 and 25.

๋กœ๋ธ”๋ก์Šค ์•ˆ์ „ ์ฑ…์ž„์ž๋Š” 5์„ธ์—์„œ 25์„ธ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ๋‚˜์ด๋ฅผ 1~2๋…„ ์ด๋‚ด์— ์ถ”์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Some companies argue that Apple and Google, who own the app stores, should do age verification.

์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์€ ์—ฐ๋ น ํ™•์ธ์„ ์•ฑ ์Šคํ† ์–ด ์†Œ์œ ์ž์ธ ์• ํ”Œ๊ณผ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค.

Apple and Google do not agree with this.

์• ํ”Œ๊ณผ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์€ ์ด์— ๋™์˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค.

Google argued that this method does not work well on desktops or devices shared by families.

๊ตฌ๊ธ€์€ ๋ฐ์Šคํฌํ†ฑ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ด ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ด ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐ˜๋ฐ•ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warns that age checks can raise the risk of leaking personal data. They can also limit access to the internet.

๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ ๋‹จ์ฒด ์ „์ž ํ”„๋ก ํ‹ฐ์–ด ์žฌ๋‹จ(EFF)์€ ์—ฐ๋ น ํ™•์ธ์ด ๊ฐœ์ธ ์ •๋ณด ์œ ์ถœ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๊ณ  ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ์ œํ•œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

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