Facebook says its Teens Safety Tips page details its position and guidelines on teens and advertising. But the page doesn't mention parental consent for any activities, barely mentions age, and
doesn't mention advertising at all. Meanwhile, three lawsuits against Facebook in California, and New York charge Facebook with failing to obtain parental consent for using the images of minors in
these socially distributed, branded "likes."
The Facebook tips page says, "Think of social media as a get-together at one of your child's friends' houses." But one parent argues that "they are basically taking users and using them for endorsements of products, and even if their terms of service says something, I don't see how a minor child can consent to something like that. Of course, it's a violation of the law."
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