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Time limits and midnight shutdowns: Meta's new child safety rules are an improvement, but critics say they still fall short.

Time limits and midnight shutdowns: Meta's new child safety rules are an improvement, but critics say they still fall short.

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August 27th, 2026

Time limits and midnight shutdowns: Meta's new child safety rules are an improvement, but critics say they still fall short.

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Meta has reached a settlement with 48 US states worth 18 billion dollars.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ 48๊ฐœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฃผ์™€ 180์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ํ•ฉ์˜๋ฅผ ์ฒด๊ฒฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

As a result, users under 18 will see major changes on Instagram and Facebook.

์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ 18์„ธ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋Š” ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ๊ณผ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ์—์„œ ํฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฒช๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹ค.

Meta has decided to remove children under 13 from its platforms.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” 13์„ธ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ ์•„๋™์„ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์—์„œ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

It will also limit teens to two hours of use per day and block access from midnight to 6 a.m.

๋˜ํ•œ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„์—๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฃจ 2์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์ œํ•œ๊ณผ ์ž์ •๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜ค์ „ 6์‹œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ฐจ๋‹จ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ๋„์ž…ํ•œ๋‹ค.

The company also promised other protections, such as hiding the number of likes.

'์ข‹์•„์š”' ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆจ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ์กฐ์น˜๋„ ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

These measures apply only in the US and will mostly stay in place for ten years.

์ด ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋งŒ ์ ์šฉ๋˜๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ 10๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์œ ์ง€๋œ๋‹ค.

Critics admit that this agreement is an improvement over Meta's earlier actions.

๋น„ํ‰๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ•ฉ์˜๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ ์ด์ „ ์กฐ์น˜๋ณด๋‹ค ์ง„์ „๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ธ์ •ํ•œ๋‹ค.

But they say it is still not enough.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

Arturo Bejar, Meta's former engineering director, called the agreement a "significant milestone."

๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ์ „ ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด๋ง ์ด์‚ฌ ์•„๋ฅดํˆฌ๋กœ ๋ฒ ํ•˜๋ฅด๋Š” ํ•ฉ์˜๊ฐ€ "์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ด์ •ํ‘œ"๋ผ๊ณ  ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He warned that parents should not think Instagram has suddenly become safe.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋“ค์ด ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ์ด ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He pointed out that letting Meta define the harm is a problem.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ •์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ—ˆ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์ ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Even when teens reach the two-hour limit, the platform's design makes them crave more, which can be distressing.

์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„์ด ๋‘ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ œํ•œ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•ด๋„ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์„ค๊ณ„์ƒ ๋” ๊ฐˆ๋งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ดด๋กœ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

Meta agreed to strengthen its age verification technology and undergo regular external audits.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ๋‚˜์ด ํ™•์ธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์™ธ๋ถ€ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋™์˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The agreement also included specific targets for false positive rates.

๊ฑฐ์ง“ ๊ธ์ •๋ฅ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋„ ํฌํ•จ๋๋‹ค.

When a user identified as under 13 is removed, the ages of their friends are also checked.

13์„ธ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์‹๋ณ„๋œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ ํ‡ด์ถœ๋˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์˜ ๋‚˜์ด๋„ ํ™•์ธํ•œ๋‹ค.

Bejar said the age verification part is "quite good" because it includes measurement and independent testing.

๋ฒ ํ•˜๋ฅด๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ น ํ™•์ธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์ธก์ •๊ณผ ๋…๋ฆฝ์  ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด "์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ข‹๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He stressed that Meta should be judged by results, not by effort.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํšจ๊ณผ๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Some safety features are set as defaults, but others are still optional.

์ผ๋ถ€ ์•ˆ์ „ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์€ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๊ฐ’์œผ๋กœ ์„ค์ •๋˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์„ ํƒ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์ด๋‹ค.

Josh Golin from the online safety group Fairplay said he was disappointed that the recommendation algorithm could not be turned off.

์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์•ˆ์ „ ๋‹จ์ฒด ํŽ˜์–ดํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์˜ ์กฐ์‹œ ๊ณจ๋ฆฐ์€ ์ถ”์ฒœ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์„ ๋„์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์— ์‹ค๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Researchers point out that many of Meta's past safety measures were not effective.

์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ž๋“ค์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ์กฐ์น˜ ์ค‘ ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Yael Eisenstat from the Center for Cyber Safety Research called the agreement a landmark event that shows a different approach is possible.

์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ์•ˆ์ „ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ์•ผ์—˜ ์•„์ด์  ์Šˆํƒ€ํŠธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ•ฉ์˜๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ ‘๊ทผ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋…๋น„์ ์ธ ์ผ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

She added that a combination of technical solutions, market pressure, and government regulation is needed.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…, ์‹œ์žฅ ์••๋ ฅ, ์ •๋ถ€ ๊ทœ์ œ์˜ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

The agreement still needs approval from a judge.

์ด ํ•ฉ์˜๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ํŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์Šน์ธ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

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