The Parental Insights feature is activated by the teen user, not the parent, through the Preferences tab; the teen enters the parent or guardian's email and initiates the invitation.
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This provision establishes that parental access to teen activity data is gated by the teen user's affirmative action rather than by a parent-initiated or platform-initiated consent mechanism. This design places control over parental oversight with the minor user, which may be relevant to regulatory assessments of whether the platform provides adequate parental oversight mechanisms for minor users.
Under this mechanism, a parent or guardian cannot independently activate access to their teen's activity data; the teen must initiate the process by navigating to Preferences and sending an email invitation. The agreement describes the teen as also capable of adding multiple parents or guardians through the same process.
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"Your teen can get started by selecting the parental insights tab in "Preferences." They can add multiple parents or guardians through this same process. They can input your email and invite you to share their activity.Excerpt from Character.AI's Safety Center
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This provision establishes that parental access to teen activity data is gated by the teen user's affirmative action rather than by a parent-initiated or platform-initiated consent mechanism. This design places control over parental oversight with the minor user, which may be relevant to regulatory assessments of whether the platform provides adequate parental oversight mechanisms for minor users.
Under this mechanism, a parent or guardian cannot independently activate access to their teen's activity data; the teen must initiate the process by navigating to Preferences and sending an email invitation. The agreement describes the teen as also capable of adding multiple parents or guardians through the same process.
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