Google on Tuesday unveiled a series of online safety measures for children including a private setting for videos uploaded by teens and safeguard for ads shown to users under 18.
The new features, which come amid heightened concerns about online child exploitation and safety at a time of growing internet usage during the global pandemic, affect Google’s YouTube video platform as well its online services such as search and Google Assistant.
“As kids and teens spend more time online, parents, educators, child safety and privacy experts, and policymakers are rightly concerned about how to keep them safe,” said Google product and user experience director Mindy Brooks.
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“We engage with these groups regularly, and share these concerns.”
Google’s “safe search” – which excludes sensitive or mature content – will be the default setting for users under 18, which up to now had been the case only for under-13 users.
