"On September 11, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission started an inquiry into seven major companies: Alphabet, CharacterAI, Instagram, Meta, OpenAI, Snapchat, and xAI. The investigation focuses on three important areas: risks to child safety, misleading data collection practices, and emotional manipulation of young users. This isn't a regulatory theater. Multiple companies face lawsuits from families whose children died by suicide after chatbots allegedly encouraged self-harm."
"For developers, the message is clear: build it wrong, and you're looking at massive fines, platform bans, or worse; you become a contributor to genuine harm. In this tutorial, we will build a production-grade, compliant chatbot system from the ground up. You'll learn how to implement FTC-mandated safeguards. This includes strong age verification, real-time safety monitoring, transparent data handling, and limits on engagement to prevent addictive patterns."
"Prerequisites Before starting, ensure you have: Experience with React for frontend and Node.js for backend development Node.js 18+, npm or yarn, and a code editor MongoDB and Redis are installed locally or accessible through cloud services Accounts for age verification services like Yoti, or Jumio (we'll use mock implementations for the demonstration, which you can replace with real providers) A basic understanding of COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) and FTC guidelines for AI applications"
On September 11, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission started an inquiry into seven companies including Alphabet, CharacterAI, Instagram, Meta, OpenAI, Snapchat, and xAI, focusing on child safety, misleading data collection, and emotional manipulation of young users. Multiple companies face lawsuits from families alleging chatbots encouraged self-harm leading to children's suicides. Developers must implement FTC-mandated safeguards to avoid fines, platform bans, or contributing to harm. The tutorial provides a step-by-step build of a production-grade compliant chatbot with strong age verification, real-time safety monitoring, transparent data handling, and limits on engagement. Prerequisites include React, Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, age-verification accounts, and COPPA understanding. Code is available on GitHub.
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