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Title: Discord gives parents more insight into their teens' activity through
Family Center

Link: https://www.engadget.com/apps/discord-gives-p...

Discord has been trying to strike a balance between affording teen users
their privacy and allowing for parental oversight. Over the next week, the
platform is rolling out some updates for its Family Center with the aim of
helping parents gain more understanding of what their teens are doing on
Discord, while giving them the ability to manage certain settings.

Parents and guardians were already able to see an overview of some of their
teens' Discord activity. Now, they'll be able to view all purchases for the
previous seven days; exactly how long teens have spent in voice and video
calls across direct messages, servers and group DMs; and the five users and
servers that a teen has called and messaged most often over the last week.

Teens will have the option to notify a guardian when they report another user
or a piece of content to Discord. The guardian will receive an email telling
them that their teen filed a report but not the details. The idea behind that
is to have a conversation about the report and for the guardian to lend their
support.

In addition, Discord is adding guardian-managed settings to Family Center.
These include the ability to determine who can DM a teen and if sensitive
content filters are enabled. Guardians will have access to some data privacy
controls too.

Discord said it designed the updates with teens in mind and to make sure they
can maintain their independence while having the parental support they might
need. Guardians can't see the content of messages that their teens send.
Teens can also view the same information as their guardians in Family Center.


To use Family Center, guardians and teens need to link their accounts. They
can do so by going to User Settings > Family Center in the Discord app.

As with other social platforms, Discord is under the spotlight when it comes
to the safety of young users. Earlier this year, New Jersey's attorney
general sued Discord, claiming that it "misled parents about the efficacy of
its safety controls and obscured the risks children faced when using the
application."

Australia, meanwhile, is considering banning children under 16 from using
Discord. Starting on December 10, the country will prohibit Reddit, Kick,
Facebook, X, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram from allowing under 16s
to use their platforms.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/apps/discord-gives-p...
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