As the online presence of children is increasing in the digital age, the concerns of parents regarding their safety are also deepening. Chatting apps, social media and online groups bring new opportunities for children, but they also create many risks. Keeping these concerns in mind, WhatsApp is preparing to introduce a new and very important feature, through which parents will be able to keep a better eye on the activities of their children.
What is the new feature of WhatsApp?
This new feature of WhatsApp is not directly related to reading chats or viewing messages, but it has been designed from the perspective of safety and supervision. Through this feature, parents will be able to manage some important safety settings related to their children’s account. The special thing is that this will maintain the privacy of the children and the parents will also continue to get the necessary information.
What control will parents get?
Under the new feature, parents will be able to see which numbers or accounts their children are associated with, who can send them messages and who cannot. Apart from this, an option can also be given to control message requests coming from unknown contacts. This will help protect children from online fraud, wrong content and unwanted contacts.
Children’s privacy will be protected
WhatsApp claims that this feature will not compromise the principle of end-to-end encryption. This means that parents will not be able to read the content of children’s chats, but will only have access to security related prompts and settings. With this, children will also not feel that their private conversations are being monitored.
How will this feature work?
To activate this feature, the parent and child accounts will be linked in a kind of link or supervision mode. After this, parents will be able to view and manage the safety settings through their WhatsApp or any fixed dashboard. This process will be completely consent based, which reduces the possibility of any kind of misuse.
Why is this feature necessary?
In today’s time, children get connected to smartphones and social media at an early age. In such a situation, there remains a danger of cyber bullying, online fraud and inappropriate content. This feature of WhatsApp gives an additional protective shield to parents, so that they will be more capable of keeping children safe in the digital world.
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