‘Family Hub’: Discord launches parental control feature

Discord, which deals with complaints of violence against minors, animal abuse, racism, self-harm and pedophilia, announced the Family Center on Tuesday (11). New security tool that will allow parents and guardians to monitor the use of the platform by children and adolescents.

With the optional function, It is possible to monitor the activities of child profiles in the communication service. It is popular with gamers and has 150 million users worldwide. Family Center displays a list of people the minor interacts with, for example.

“Our goal with Central da Família is to help foster a productive dialogue about safer internet habits and create useful ways for parents and young people to connect through online experiences,” the social network explained. The teen’s consent is required to activate the feature.

To enable the tool you need to update the Discord app and go to user settings where the new option can be found. Installation should be done by teenagers and their parents.by scanning a QR Code made available for each responsible person added to the account.

What can parents see?

By linking an account to Discord Family Hub, parents will be informed about newly added friendsincluding names and avatars. Details will also be displayed on servers where teens and children have joined or are participating.

Parents will also be able to see which users their kids are texting or calling., both directly and in group chats. In this case, names, avatars and when the last messages or calls took place will be visible, the data will be available in a new panel in the service and in a weekly summary sent by email.

An important detail confirmed by the communication app, Message and call contents will not be shared with the responsible persons., as a way to protect the privacy of adolescents. The social network also announced that it is making more efforts to increase user protection.