Instagram chief testifies to Congress, Apple to add service history to iPhones

Speaker 1: This is Cena. And here are the stories that matter right now in a congressional hearing, Instagram CEO, Adam Messer, pushed for the creation of an industry body to determine best practices for protecting teens and younger children. Online Moai also testified to lawmakers about what Instagram knows about the its platform has on young people. The hearing comes as Instagram, Facebook, and parent company meta face increasing scrutiny. After a former employee [00:00:30] leaked a trove of internal research documents earlier this year in a support document published on Tuesday, apple says iPhones running iOS 15.2 or later will show whether some parts of the device have been replaced such as battery display and camera. The move comes as apple prepares to launch a self-service repair program starting next year, iOS 15.2. The next version of apple software for iPhones is expected to be released this month. [00:01:00] And finally, a report by the markup says family friendly location sharing app life 360 is selling its user data to about a dozen different data brokers who are then selling that same data to quote virtually anyone who wants to buy it and quote, the report also suggests life 360. Isn't making its location data anonymous enough to protect its users. Some of which are children. Life 360 did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Speaker 1: [00:01:30] Stay up to date with the latest by visiting SNET.