New Lawsuits, Hearings and Bills Show Social Media Age Limits Are Far From Settled
Four developments this week show that laws keeping children off social media are still being fought over, and that the fight often turns on how platforms are…
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Türkiye’s Under-15 Social Media Ban Takes Effect With e-Devlet Age Tokens
Türkiye’s ban on social media accounts for children under 15 has taken effect, along with an age-check system that has users obtain a digital token through…
Greece Gives Social Platforms Until December to Show How They Will Verify Ages
Greece has begun meeting with major social media companies and given them until early December to show the technology they will use to verify users’ ages…
Romanian Senate Passes Under-15 Social Media Ban With Mandatory Age Verification
Romania’s Senate has adopted a bill that would bar children under 15 from using online social networks and require platforms to verify users’ ages with methods…
European Commission Freezes Austria’s Under-14 Social Media Ban Pending EU Kids Act
The European Commission has blocked Austria’s proposed ban on social media for children under 14 for now, postponing for 12 months national draft laws that…
Ofcom Identifies Four Age Check Methods for UK’s Under-16 Social Media Ban
Ofcom has identified four age assurance methods that it considers “currently capable of being highly effective” at establishing whether a social media user is…
Thailand to Require Advertiser ID Checks on Social Media From November 1
Social media platforms in Thailand will have to verify the identity of advertisers before publishing paid ads from November 1, under new electronic…
Greece Passes Under-15 Social Media Ban With Wallet-Based Age Checks
Greece’s parliament has approved a ban on access to social media for children under 15, with age-verification functions in the government’s digital wallet and…
Norway Revises Planned Social Media Age-Limit Law to Cover Harmful Games and Messaging
Norway’s government has revised its planned social media age-limit law to cover platforms judged harmful to children, while removing broad exemptions for games…
Appeals Court Lets Georgia Enforce Social Media Age Verification Law
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for Georgia to enforce its law requiring social media platforms to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent…