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Norway To Increase Minimum Age Limit On Social Media To 15 To Protect Children

Norway plans to enforce a strict minimum social media age of 15 to protect children from harmful content and the influence of algorithms. The Guardian reports: The Scandinavian country already has a minimum age limit of 13 in place. Despite this, more than half of nine-year-olds, 58% of 10-year-old...

Norway plans to enforce a strict minimum social media age of 15 to protect children from harmful content and the influence of algorithms. The government has pledged to introduce more safeguards to prevent children from getting around the age restrictions -- including amending the Personal Data Act so that social media users must be 15 years old to agree that the platform can handle their personal data, and developing an age verification barrier for social media. While he said he understood that social media could offer lonely children a community, self-expression must not be in the power of algorithms.

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