minors

Minors are individuals under the age of 18, a demographic group that is the subject of new regulatory and legal discussions concerning their access to and use of social media and other digital platforms.

Why it’s in the news: Minors are in the news as governments and courts consider new laws and policies to protect them from potential online harms and regulate their social media use.

Latest on minors

• Restrictions on social media for under-18? SC asks Centre to examine statutory safeguards for minors
• Legislation among options to regulate minors’ social media use: justice minister
• SC agrees to hear plea seeking safeguards for minors accessing social media
• Medicaid will stop paying for some gender-affirming care for transgender minors
• Philippines weighs social media ban for minors as school violence, online extremism fuel alarm
• TikTok’s protection of minors should not be opt-in, warns EU
• OpenAI must now comply with the European Union's Digital Services Act and mitigate risks related to ChatGPT's impact on minors, user mental health, and illegal content spread.
• the regulator focused on age checks, re-registration controls, and default privacy settings for under-18 profiles
• The decision focuses heavily on minors, because the service was accessible to them and the regulator found the company's safeguards and age-verification procedures insufficient.
• TikTok faces EU charges for allegedly failing to protect minors from cyberbullying and predators through its account and privacy settings.
• A platform built to protect minors from inappropriate content couldn't verify who was actually using it.
• Proposal for EU KIDS Act - 'EU Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy'

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