Updates to Supplemental Privacy Policy and Parent Privacy Disclosure

[RyanBsdafasdfdfbd]

I got this email from Meta last night:

Hi Ryan,

We wanted to let you know that we’ve made updates to the Supplemental Meta Platforms Technologies Privacy Policy and the Parent Privacy Disclosure that apply to your or your child’s use of Meta Platforms Technologies Products, such as Meta Quest. These updates provide information on new features that allow you to add approved contacts for your child, manage who they follow, and manage their privacy settings.

Here are some of the key updates we’re making:
Your child will now be able to follow others and have followers. Your child’s Meta Horizon profile is set to private by default, which means all follow requests have to be accepted by your child or you. Now, you can choose to manage who your child follows and who follows your child in Family Center.
You can add users as approved contacts that your child can call and chat with. Approved contacts can also send or receive invites from your child to join them in an app or experience. You or your child can remove approved contacts anytime in Family Center.
You can control who can see your child’s activity in virtual reality with privacy settings in Family Center. Your child’s Active Status and current app usage will be defaulted to “off” or hidden from others unless you change these default privacy settings in Family Center. By default, your child’s activity will only be visible to your child.
People you add as approved contacts, your child’s followers, and those they follow may appear higher in your child’s search results.
We may collect information about how your child is connected to others, such as who they follow and who you have added as an approved contact.
To use some of these new features, you’ll need to accept the updates to our Parent Privacy Disclosure.

View Parent Privacy Disclosure

- The Meta Team

When I login to meta family center I cannot see any child accounts. I have no idea what account this is even referring to. Also I find the changes in this update to be intrusive and creepy. No I do not want my 5 year old being contacted by adult strangers in VR or having his usage and data tracked by Meta.

After reading this email and trying to dig further with no success, I have decided our quest headset is now off limits to our three young kids. I was able to login to our 9 year old's meta account using his email address and his birthday is wrong (says he is older than he actually is and I can't update it). I decided to delete the account associated with him and Meta is saying it takes 30 days to delete his data, but won't even say if the actual account is going to be deleted. 

We don't want this product if it is trying to expose them to adults on the internet. I am thoroughly creeped out now by Meta. Leave the kids alone @Zucks 

[Mafootje]

Nice, hopefully in Europe soon. 

[Lazymorte]

I see the contact option now. Once they are a follower or are following, you can tap the person and add them as a contact.

[Mafootje]

I still can't follow my own son. Hopefully they implement it in Europe soon 

[KingGoonie1217]

I have down that but it says I still cannot sent them a message.  I thought that was something they added when added ability to follow. 

[KingGoonie1217]

I had to have child log in to account on head set then search for me and request me.  She still can’t from app.  But finally have it set up Joe so can send messages.

[KaminasWife]

Hey folks! This thread has gotten very meaty and a bit off topic, so we're gonna close it down for now. If you're still having issues feel free to let us know in your own post or feel free to message our support account! 

[LaserDisk]

Hello everyone. It looks like this thread was locked by mistake, we apologize for any confusion caused. We have reopened the thread to permit new comments on the post for those who are still affected. Please do not hesitate to share your updates here, and inform us if you are experiencing any issues now that the feature appears to be fully implemented.

[Mafootje]

I got a message that new social features are available for the account of our son. I was able to send him a friend request. I then received a notification to approve the request. But when trying that I get this message

 

[MetaQuestSupport]

Hi there, @Mafootje!

We understand you're encountering an error message when trying to approve a friend request for your child's account, and we'd love to lend a helping hand!

Could we please clarify first of all, if you are currently using the most up-to-date version of our app?  

We are looking forward to hearing back from you!

[Mafootje]

Hi i have version Versie 283.0.0.12.109 and don't see any update in the Play Store.