Terence Smith

Ofcom is about to tell Parliament how to prove a user is over 16. That is the easy part. By Terence, founder, The Off Switch Before the end of October, Ofcom is due to hand Parliament a rapid assessment of a deceptively simple question: how do you reliably check that someone online is over 16? It is the next milestone on the road to the under-16 social media ban. The government announced in June that under-16s will be kept off Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X. Regulations...