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An estimated 2.5 million young people may lose access to their social media accounts in 43 days. Social media companies discuss deactivating vs. deleting accounts and archiving content. #SocialMedia #Privacy #Youth #TechNews
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number of young people who are going to
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be impacted in just 43 days on the 10th
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of December, but the estimates are
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somewhere around about two and a half
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million young people are going to lose
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access to their social media accounts in
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43 days. Could I ask you each to tell us
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what the experience of someone who's
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just turned 15 who's on one of your
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platforms will be over the next 43 days?
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And while we've got you on the big
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screen, we might start with you, Miss
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Woods Choice.
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Of course. Thank you, Senator. And I do
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just want to start with saying we do
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share the concerns of many of the
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experts that you've heard from that talk
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about um the fact that an age ban may
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not work and might actually not address
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the genuine safety concerns that I think
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we all share about online safety for our
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young people. Um there are many genuine
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benefits for the entire community from
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being online and finding connection and
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an outlet for creativity. Um but of
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course the laws passed the parliament
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requires that we comply with it. And
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what we'll be doing to uh to ensure that
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we comply is deactivating those accounts
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for people under 16. But if you're 15 um
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on December the 10th, your account,
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you'll have a number of options. Um that
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includes the ability to deactivate your
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account. You may also choose to delete
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the account, but very importantly, we
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will make sure that users have the
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ability to archive the content that is
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already there. Uh, and we also want to
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make sure that we're communicating
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really clearly with our community about
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what they can expect and when they can
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expect it.
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Um, well, we've got some further
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questions that come from that, but we
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might then go to Meta and Snapchat. What
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What's a 15year-old, someone who's just
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turned 15, what's their next 43 days
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going to look like?
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Certainly, Senator, I'm happy to jump in
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and then I can throw to Jennifer. Um so
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we will certainly we're still working
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through the precise sort of um wording
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and flows but we'll certainly be
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providing people with notice and um
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deactivation of accounts as well um
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which obviously you know there's
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deletion which would remove the account
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but deactivation will just um you know
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temporarily pause it. So we're looking
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through a range of different options but
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making sure that there is very clear
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notice to young people and their parents
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so that they can uh take the actions
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that work best for them.
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