Australia's under-16 account rules are in force. Brazil and Indonesia use consent models. The UK has announced a restriction; France's under-15 ban was struck…
For years most large platforms set 13 as the minimum account age, a figure shaped by the US privacy law COPPA. It was a terms-of-service rule, not a national law, and it…
Parliament passed the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act, setting 16 as the minimum account age and giving platforms about a year to prepare before t…
Ten named platforms, from Instagram and TikTok to YouTube and Reddit, must now take reasonable steps to stop under-16s creating or keeping accounts. The duty is on platf…
eSafety reported that platforms removed access to about 4.7 million under-16 accounts by mid-December 2025, based on platform reporting, with more than 300,000 further a…
Brazil's Digital ECA (17 March) requires verifiable parental consent for under-16s and bans age self-declaration. Indonesia's PP TUNAS (28 March) sets tiered age access…
An OECD review found 25 member and accession countries with age restrictions in force, enacted or under consideration, but only Australia, Brazil and Indonesia had laws…
On 15 June 2026 the UK government announced social media would be made unavailable to under-16s, with feature limits for under-18s. It promised legislation before Christ…
eSafety's three-month research found modest shifts. Fewer children felt they were missing out, down from 43 to 36 percent. But most under-16s who had accounts kept or re…
The Council ruled the under-15 access ban was neither appropriate, necessary nor proportionate as a limit on minors' freedom of expression, and removed it. The governmen…
New Zealand introduced an under-16 bill, unlikely to pass before its November election. Days later Meta settled US state claims with default teen time limits and a night…
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