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T he United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sharply criticised Meta for alleged safety breaches in its Messenger Kids app and more general privacy issues related to children’s private data. The Messenger Kids issue refers to a bug uncovered in 2019 that broke the app’s core premise: that children would be able to chat with only approved friends. The flaw allowed children to communicate with non-approved contacts if they were part of a group chat where said contact had been approved for another participant. According to Sophos’ Naked Security blog , this bug went unfixed for 10 months. The...
