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Report shows children can bypass age verification procedures on social media apps
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Children of all ages can completely bypass age verification measures to sign-up to the world’s most popular social media apps including Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, Skype and Discord by simply lying about their age, a study by researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software has found.
And even potential age verification solutions identified by the research team can be easily sidestepped by children, according to the team’s most recent study: Digital Age of Consent and Age Verification: Can They Protect Children?