Children's social media curbs planned across EU, von der Leyen says
Ursula von der Leyen backs phased access rules after experts urged supervised use for under-13s and stronger safeguards for teens.
- The European Commission plans to introduce legislation after the summer aimed at establishing a harmonized, bloc-wide framework to limit young children's access to social media.
- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen highlighted that the draft law will focus on restricting predatory algorithms and preventing Big Tech platforms from exploiting minors.
- An expert advisory panel has recommended a phased approach, including an outright restriction on unsupervised social media use for children under thirteen.
- The planned restrictions will extend beyond traditional social networks to "social media plus" services, capturing gaming platforms, messaging apps, and artificial intelligence chatbots with addictive features.
- This upcoming regulatory push aims to resolve legal conflicts with member nations like France and Greece, which have faced pushback from the bloc for independently drafting their own national age limits.
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It is up to parents to decide when their children get their first smartphone. But there is consensus that there is a need to set an age limit for children to access social media, said European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen. The head of the EU executive received the final report from a special expert panel on child safety online, on which experts worked for several months. According to von der Leyen, the Commission will now study…
EU Plans To Restrict Social Media Use For Children Under 13
[Image: ChatGPT] Yesterday, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission (the executive body of the European Union) announced that the EU is planning to restrict access to social media and other digital services to children under the age of 13. This comes at a time when several nations, such as Australia and the UK, have put similar bans in place to try and prevent social media addiction in underage users. This statement came a…
The European Commission will present after summer a law setting a minimum age of access and an open source application for parents to verify the identity of minors
Children need time in the real world... EU also pushes to block social media for minors. As countries around the world begin regulating social media use by minors, the European Union (EU) has announced that it will soon introduce legislation to restrict children's access to social media. Five countries, including Australia, have already regulated social media for minors...
The EU Commission wants to enforce a social media ban for under 13-year-olds, based on an expert body that recommends even stricter regulations. Among other things, the ban is to be enforced with the help of the in-house age verification app.
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