TikTok announces the rollout of new age-verification tech in EU

Bogdan Hofbauer

Jan. 16 (UPI) -- TikTok said Friday that it would begin rolling out enhanced age-verification technology to ensure users in the European Union meet the platform's minimum-age rules precluding children under 13 from using the app. The rollout over the coming weeks follows a year-long pilot of the system, which automatically flags up accounts that may belong to someone under 13 to a human moderator to make a final determination, resulting in the removal of thousands of underage accounts, TikTok

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