Not so long ago, Google’s plans to make products like YouTube and Search kid-friendly were nothing but rumors. However, they have a new goal to make those aspirations into reality.
Google is more than ready to discuss the changes that would occur to their services, in order to benefit the well-being of kids.
The vice president at the kid-centric initiative, Pavni Diwanji, said that it is expected that Google for this campaign would cause certain controversy.
News about the desire of Google to create a kid-friendly version of its different services like Gmail and YouTube, first surfaced earlier this year in August.
The reports released stated that Google is intending to set up their services with limits that the guardians can set, giving them control and authority over what material minors are allowed to access and share.
There is a possibility that controversy may arise because of Google’s initiative. Since children age 13 and below are under the protection of the COPPA Act of 1998 that states minors are protected from target advertising and data mining, unless they have guardian consent beforehand.
Google states that they just want to help and be thoughtful about what they do, giving adults the right set of tools so they can see what their kids are viewing on the Internet. They want to protect all kids and keep them safe, helping them to be tech creators and not just consumers.
There is an effort that is currently taking place to get companies to promise they will not use data that is collected from minors.
Keith Krueger the CEO at Consortium School Networking, an important group wants to help leaders at schools by providing better technology in exchange for better education.
He says that service providers need to be transparent and provide an outline of the protection for student data in order to receive trust in exchange.
