TikTok to tighten age checks in Europe as regulators ramp up pressure

Bogdan Hofbauer

STOCKHOLM: TikTok will start rolling out new age-detection technology across Europe in the coming weeks, it told Reuters on Friday (Jan 16), as the ByteDance-owned platform faces regulatory pressure to better identify and remove accounts belonging to children under 13. The previously unreported system follows a year-long pilot in Europe. It analyses profile information, posted videos and behavioural signals to predict whether an account may be underage. Accounts flagged by the technology will

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