TikTok to strengthen age check systems in EU to protect young

TikTok is to implement use of new age-verification technology across the EU in the coming weeks, as calls grow for an Australia-style social media ban for under-16s.

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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.

‘The system, which has been quietly piloted in the EU over the past year, analyses profile information, posted videos and behavioural signalsto predict whether an account maybelongtoa user underthe age of 13. As well as analysing information the account holder provides about themselves, the technology looks at the videos a user publishes, and “other on-platform behaviour”.