Europe Wants to Make Kids Under 16 Get Parental Permission to Use Social Media

From: Vice News

By Lucie Aubourg

In a last-minute amendment to Europe’s new data protection regulations — which were approved on Tuesday after four years of negotiations between various European Union institutions — policy makers raised the legal digital consent age to 16.

According to the text of the agreement, which was published in full by Statewatch, “the processing of personal data of a child below the age of 16 is years […] shall only be lawful if and to the extent that such consent is given or authorized by the holder of parental responsibility over the child.”

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