Britain Tells Social Platforms to Strengthen Age Checks for Children

UK Pushes for Stricter Social Media Age Checks to Protect Children

Britain's regulators urge social media giants to enforce stricter age checks to protect children online. With growing concerns over harmful content, platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok face pressure to demonstrate improved safety measures. Failure to comply could result in substantial fines from Ofcom and the ICO.

Britain tells social platforms to strengthen age checks for children

Britain’s media and privacy regulators have warned major social media platforms to strengthen age verification and child safety measures, saying companies are failing to enforce minimum age rules and exposing children to harmful content, under new enforcement powers in the Online Safety Act.

NEWS: Tech Firms Urged to Introduce Stronger Age Checks for Under-13s

As reported by the BBC, UK regulators have told major technology firms they should introduce stronger systems to stop children under 13 keep reading The post NEWS: Tech Firms Urged to Introduce Stronger Age Checks for Under-13s first appeared on Edexec.

Data regulator issues stark child safety warning to tech firms

The UK’s data regulator has demanded tech platforms hosting social media and video sharing content act immediately to strengthen age assurance measures in the name of child safety. In an open letter to applicable firms, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that the technologies required to prevent children from accessing harmful content are “readily available”, yet many services still offer sub-standard measures. “Age assurance techn…

ICO demands that tech firms strengthen age checks

The Information Commissioner’s Office has today published an open letter to social media and video‑sharing platforms operating in the UK, calling on them to strengthen age assurance measures so young children can’t access services that are not designed for them. The open letter sets out the ICO’s expectations that platforms with a minimum age must move beyond relying on children to self-declare their ages, which they can easily bypass. Instead, …