The Parental Insights tool delivers weekly reports to connected parents or guardians disclosing the teen user's total time spent on the platform and the top AI characters the teen has interacted with during that period.
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This provision establishes a specific data disclosure mechanism in which teen usage data, including session duration and character interaction records, is transmitted to a third-party email address (the parent or guardian) on a weekly cadence. The data categories disclosed, time spent and top characters interacted with, may constitute personal information subject to applicable privacy and children's data protection frameworks.
Under this feature, a parent or guardian connected via Parental Insights receives weekly reports containing the teen's time spent on Character.AI and the top characters interacted with. The agreement describes these reports as automatically generated on a weekly basis once the parent has accepted the teen's invitation.
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"Receive a weekly activity report which will include the time spent by your teen on Character.AI and the top Characters they are interacting with.Excerpt from Character.AI's Safety Center
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Transmission of teen user activity data including session duration and character interaction history to parent email addresses may engage COPPA if any users are under 13, as well as state children's privacy …
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This provision establishes a specific data disclosure mechanism in which teen usage data, including session duration and character interaction records, is transmitted to a third-party email address (the parent or guardian) on a weekly cadence. The data categories disclosed, time spent and top characters interacted with, may constitute personal information subject to applicable privacy and children's data protection frameworks.
Under this feature, a parent or guardian connected via Parental Insights receives weekly reports containing the teen's time spent on Character.AI and the top characters interacted with. The agreement describes these reports as automatically generated on a weekly basis once the parent has accepted the teen's invitation.
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