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Apple Warns Amazon About Sexually Explicit Kindle Content Accessible to Children
Amazon’s Kindle platform sells adult-oriented books that include photographs that are not suitable for children, with the content first discovered by parents who contacted Reuters. The parents had purchased Kindle Unlimited for their pre-teen children because it included age appropriate books that were not available on Amazon’s separate Amazon Kids+ subscription service.
Kindle Unlimited also offers books with full color nude photographs, which the children were able to download for free and with no parental checks as Kindle Unlimited provides all content for one $10/month subscription price. The books are self-published through the direct publishing feature of the Kindle service, which allows authors to publish their books instantly and make them available through Kindle Unlimited.
Apple did not provide detail on its communications with Amazon, but the company told Reuters the following: “We’ve shared these concerns with the developer and are working with them to ensure their app is compliant with our guidelines.” Apple also changed the age rating of the Kindle app to 12 years or older from 4 years or older.
Apple’s App Store guidelines do not allow apps that depict “overtly sexual or pornographic material,” and app developers are “responsible for moderating the user-generated content on their platforms.”
Google too said that it had contacted Amazon and that Google Play does not allow apps that contain or promote sexual content, while Amazon said that it is “reviewing all of the available information and taking action” based on its findings. Amazon said it is “committed to providing a safe shopping and reading experience” for customers and their families.
At the current time, the Kindle Unlimited service does not offer parental controls, and Amazon has not yet made any changes to the Kindle app or Kindle Unlimited.
This article, “Apple Warns Amazon About Sexually Explicit Kindle Content Accessible to Children” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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Exams watchdog Ofqual is being urged to rethink its instruction to exam boards to return to “normal marking” for the first time since 2019.
Kids taking exams this summer should be marked up, it was claimed yesterday[/caption]
The Northern Powerhouse Partnership said teens sitting A-levels and GCSEs were being treated “very unfairly”.
It comes after marks were increased in 2021 and 2022 to compensate for Covid disruption.
There were no exams in 2020.
Teachers will strike on April 27, May 2 and for three days in June or July.
Ofqual said: “We’re building in an allowance to grading that reflects the disruption students have experienced.”
He told the Sunday Times: “Not only did this year’s exam candidates lose lessons in the pandemic, many teenagers have not returned to school full time and behaviour in schools is much worse than it was.”
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The parent group UsforThem fears their addictive apps make children distracted, isolated and depressed.
It also wants “tobacco-style health warnings” on mobile phone packaging.
The campaign, backed by experts and MPs, calls on the government to take action to help combat the digital dependance of kids.
Schools reformer Katharine Birbalsingh said: “Banning smartphones for under 16s is an absolute necessity.”
Ms Birbalsingh, dubbed Britain’s strictest headteacher, added: “We ban all sorts of things for under 16s: sex, cigarettes, alcohol, driving, even some films.
“Yet we make access to these and much worse via the smartphone so easy, done without parental knowledge, not to mention how phones break their brains.”
Former Peep Show star Sophie Winkleman, who has twice moved her two girls out of “tech-heavy schools”, backs the campaign.
She believes regular use of phones and social media apps such as TikTok hampers the ability of children to learn.
Winkleman, 42 — who is married to Lord Frederick Windsor, son of Prince Michael of Kent — said: “Being online in any capacity is addictive as hell.
“The internet is a toxic wilderness we’re letting children stumble through without protection.
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