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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Mark Sweney

TikTok to strengthen age-verification technology across EU

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TikTok’s new system analyses profile information, posted videos and behavioural signals to predict whether an account may be belong to an under-13 user. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

TikTok will begin to roll out new age-verification technology across the EU in the coming weeks, as calls grow for an Australia-style social media ban for under-16s in countries including the UK.

ByteDance-owned TikTok, and other major platforms popular with young people such as YouTube, are coming under increasing pressure to better identify and remove accounts belonging to children.

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