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Anger from campaigners as WhatsApp lowers age limit to 13 in UK and EU
Child safety group says Meta ‘putting profits before protecting children’, as messaging app lowers age limit from 16
The campaign group Smartphone Free Childhood said the move “flies in the face of the growing national demand for big tech to do more to protect our children”. Ofcom’s director of online safety strategy, Mark Bunting, said the regulator would not hesitate to fine social media companies that failed to follow its directions, once it had the power to do so. This week Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, unveiled a range of safety features designed to protect users, in particular young people, from “sextortion” and intimate image abuse.
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