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Stories for you at the top of the hour straight after this programme. —— main news stories. one in three internet users is a child. pizza, who wants some yummy pizza? children's attention is worth billions. it's an industry fuelled by personal data... ad tech and big tech sometimes know more about a young person than their parents do. ..where young users don't always understand what they're sharing. they've got messages stored here from when i was... - i must have been 13, 14. should more be done to control this massive market? are they kind of influencing children's life's choices? absolu...

That they had stopped collecting data on under—18s too. tiktok and youtube are still collecting data on this age group. though youtube says it will reduce the amount it is collecting. we didn't get a clear answerfrom facebook, which owns instagram. what's clear is the new code doesn't stop companies collecting personal data on under—18s. ad tech and big tech sometimes know more about a young person than their parents do, and that can be in ways that might get them in trouble with their parents. heather burns is a digital rights activist. she says uk data protection laws didn't need strengt...

As people become aware of what they've been doing, those people will turn against those organisations. they won't use their services as they become adults. they won't purchase them for their companies. i have a feeling in some ways that ad tech is sometimes too powerful for regulators. are they more in charge of you than you are of them? so — i mean, ithink enforcement is not the only tool- in our toolkit for drive change. there are platforms who don't adapt as the code comes into place or others, once we've tried education, once we helped them through it, if they still aren't doing the righ...

Tiktok still allows these, if the user has agreed. we asked the big platforms if this new rule meant they've stopped collecting data on under—18s, too. tiktok and youtube are still collecting data on this age group, though youtube says it will reduce the amount it's collecting. we didn't get a clear answerfrom facebook, which owns instagram. what's clear is the new code doesn't stop companies collecting personal data on under—18s. ad tech and big tech sometimes know more about a young person than their parents do. and that can be in ways that might get them in trouble with their parents. h...

Now in bbc news, emily brown investigates the effect social media companies are having on children's lives. disclosure — he was looking after the kids? disclosure — who's looking after the kids? one in three internet users is a child. pizza! children's attention is worth billions. it's an industry fuelled by personal data. ad tech and big tech sometimes know more about a young person than their parents do. where young users don't always understand what they're sharing. they've got messages stored here from when i was... must have been 13, 14. should more be done to control this massive mar...