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2020 Technical Report: A Review Of Age Verification Mechanism For 10 Social Media Apps, Cliona Curley
2020 Technical Report: A Review Of Age Verification Mechanism For 10 Social Media Apps, Cliona Curley
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This study presents an analysis of the age verification mechanisms in place for 10 popular social media apps used by children: Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Viber, Skype, Facebook, HouseParty, Discord, Messenger, WhatsApp. According to CyberSafeIreland, these are the apps most used by younger children, including underage children, i.e. below the age of 13 which is defined as the minimum age for use of such services (16 years in the case of WhatsApp).
Data collected from CyberSafeIreland’s annual survey of children’s use of social media shows that Snapchat was the most popular app in 2018/19 with 33% of children, aged 8-13, using …
2019 Technical Report: A Review Of Age Verification Mechanism For 10 Social Media Apps, Paola Zippo, Liliana Pasquale
2019 Technical Report: A Review Of Age Verification Mechanism For 10 Social Media Apps, Paola Zippo, Liliana Pasquale
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This technical report analyzes the 10 most used apps among children aged 8-12: Snapchat, Instagram, Tiktok, Viber, Skype, Facebook, HouseParty, Discord, Messenger, WhatsApp. For each application we assess whether the terms of use specify a minimum age that is compliant with the GDPR and whether the specified age is the same across all EU countries. We also verify whether each app provides mechanisms to verify the age of the user and how easy is to circumvent the verification mechanisms. The remainder of this report discusses the results of our study providing evidence to support the answers provided for each question.