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Online Safety Regulator may require Meta and TikTok to seek passport uploads from children to prove age
Children may be required to upload their passports to Facebook, Instagram and TikTok under new age verification rules from Ireland’s online media regulator.
It comes as the agency gets ready to publish its new Online Safety Code, which will set out new measures it hopes will help to prevent cyberbullying, eating disorders, self-harm and underage access to adult content, including pornography. Coimisiún na Meán, which regulates platforms that have their EU headquarters in Ireland, has specified “identity documents” such as passports or “live” selfies as methods it may approve of for age verification, “accompanied by appropriate privacy protections”. “Under the Online Safety Code, platforms depending on their nature and size, need to satisfy Coimisiún na Meán as to their methods of age verification,” a spokesperson for the agency told the Irish Independent.
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