Teens will need parental consent to use social media sites
A recently voted amendment to the European General Data Protection Regulation would prohibit companies from handling the data of a child under 16. Previously, the threshold was the age of 13.
The European General Data Protection Regulation (EGDPR) is an EU law introduced in January 2012 as a way for the European Parliament to control and regulate the EU cyberspace.
One of its provisions was that companies would be forbidden to ask, store, and handle the private details (data acquired in sign-up registrations) from kids who were 13 and younger.
All companies that want to handle children information or target a children userbase need to obtain consent from one of the parents. This is usually done by also requiring personal data from the parent at sign-up or via dual parent-kid accounts.
