WhatsApp 正在推出新的家长控制功能，允许监护人监督青少年的互动对象，并为 Meta AI 聊天选择内容设置。
WhatsApp is introducing new parental controls that could allow guardians to keep a tab on who their teens interact with, and also choose content settings for Meta AI chats.
借助这些新控制项，父母可以限制青少年的频道使用权限、他们可以看到谁的状态，以及谁可以看到他们的状态更新。监护人还可以控制谁能将青少年加入群聊，或者谁能查看他们的头像。父母还可以选择在青少年加入新群聊、退出群聊或群聊人数增长到 30、100 或 250 人时接收通知。
With the new controls, parents can limit how teens use channels, whose Status they can see, and who can see their Status updates. Guardians can also control who can add teens to groups or who can see their profile picture. Parents can also choose to get a notification when a teen joins a new group, leaves one, or the group size grows to 30, 100, or 250 members.
所有这些设置都受父母设置的 PIN 码保护，因此如果青少年需要更改任何内容，必须获得父母的批准。监护人也可以完全关闭这些控制项。
All of these settings are gated behind a PIN set by parents, so if a teen needs to change anything, they would need their parents’ approval. Guardians can also turn these controls off completely.
除了这些设置外，父母还可以为 Meta AI 设置内容偏好。现在提供了一个选项，可以选择默认的 13 岁以上设置，或者更严格的“受限内容”选项，该选项会禁用基于私密处理的功能，例如隐身聊天和消息摘要。
Besides these settings, parents can also set content settings for Meta AI. There’s now an option to choose the default 13+ setting, or a stricter ‘Limited Content’ option that disables private processing-based features like incognito chat and message summaries.
WhatsApp 表示，尽管有这些新控制项，应用上的消息和通话仍然保持端到端加密，任何人（包括平台）都无法查看。
WhatsApp said despite these new controls, messages and calls on the app remain end-to-end encrypted, and no one can see them.
Meta 此前一直面临多起诉讼，指责其社交媒体产品对儿童造成了伤害。议员们曾向 Meta、特别是 Instagram 施压，指责该公司延迟推出青少年安全功能。今年 8 月，该公司同意支付高达 180 亿美元的巨额罚款，以达成美国 29 个州对其提起的诉讼的和解。
Meta has been on the receiving end of several lawsuits that accuse the company’s social media products of causing harm to children. Lawmakers have pressed Meta and, in particular, Instagram, on the company’s delays to launch teen safety features. In August, the company agreed to pay a hefty $18 billion fine to settle a lawsuit brought by 29 states in the U.S.
该公司一直在积极为其各大应用引入保护儿童的功能。今年，Meta 推出了受电影评级启发的的内容控制功能，推出了针对 Meta AI 互动的家长控制功能，在 WhatsApp 上添加了前青少年账户，并开始在儿童搜索自残内容时向家长发出警报。
The company has been aggressive in introducing features to protect children across its apps. This year, it has rolled out movie rating-inspired content controls, launched parental controls for interactions with Meta AI, added pre-teen accounts on WhatsApp, and started alerting parents if their children search for self-harm content on