Are these features ‘unconscionable’, Meta to ask jurypublished at 19:40 BST<\/p>\n
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Schmidt argues that the attorney generals are basing their unfair practices claim on three features: the ability for users to have multiple accounts; time management tools; and efforts to block users under the age of 13. <\/p>\n
He asks the jury to consider at the end of the case whether these features are “unconscionable or unfair”. <\/p>\n
On multiple accounts, Schmidt argues that there is “value” in having multiple accounts, and being able to have separate accounts for different interests, like sports, music or family. <\/p>\n
On time management tools, he says: “They’re not challenging as unfair, someone generally having access to Instagram. How can they make it unfair to give that person time management tools, even if they had criticisms?” <\/p>\n
And on age verification, he says that there are “real challenges”, including privacy and fairness concerns.<\/p>\n
“Not everyone has government ID, not everyone has credit cards or wants to share them,” he says.<\/p>\n
Meta is legally not allowed to keep children’s data which might otherwise allow it to create computer models to detect under-13 users, he says. <\/p>\n
But the company has always required age entry on Facebook and later on Instagram and allows people to report underage users, he adds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are these features ‘unconscionable’, Meta to ask jurypublished at 19:40 BST 19:40 BST Schmidt argues that the attorney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-817981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}