Massachusetts' Attorney General should use part of the Commonwealth’s over $350 million legal settlement with Meta to create a new unit that can investigate and bring enforcement actions against tech companies
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At this point, it’s clear that Meta has no interest in engaging critics in good faith or even making its products safe for kids, so it’s up to Congress to step in and force the company to stop addicting and harming our children.
Fairplay's new white paper exposes the various tactics used by the tech industry to harm young children and calls on advocates, educators, and lawmakers to protect young kids by organizing around a shared agenda for change.
As the child advocacy group that filed a Request for Investigation of Roblox at the FTC earlier this year, Fairplay welcomes the investigation.
The model policy will protect students by forbidding the use of AI products in schools unless they meet strict criteria for privacy, safety, and efficacy.
Thirteen leading organizations and experts on technology in schools sent an open letter to the 150 largest American school districts today.
This trend of AI companies using kids’ mascots to market their highly unsafe products needs to stop immediately.
We hope this agreement does not fool schools into thinking that GenAI products are safe and effective for use with schoolchildren or hoodwink policymakers into thinking legislation restricting AI use in schools is not needed.
If the nation’s second-largest public school district can take this bold and principled stand, there is no reason why other districts can’t do the same.
We agree with our partners in the AI Moratorium for NYC Schools coalition that this new policy, while a step in the right direction, raises serious concerns.