The move aims to help Instagram comply with a US law and its own policies.
Instagram
has said that it would require new users to verify they are at least
13 when they join the visually focused, Facebook-owned social
network.
The
move aims to help Instagram comply with a US law and its own policies
that require any user to be at least 13.
"Asking
for this information will help prevent underage people from joining
Instagram, help us keep young people safer and enable more
age-appropriate experiences overall," an Instagram blog said.
The
company said the age information would not be visible to others but
would help in creating "age-appropriate and safer experiences"
on the social network with more than a billion users.
It
was not immediately clear how Instagram would protect against young
people providing false information, which has been a persistent issue
for social media.
The
announcement came a day after a TechCrunch article which noted that
Instagram did not follow the example of most of its social media
peers in checking the ages of users, which could put the network in
violation of the Child
Online Privacy Protection Act.
The
article noted that Facebook and Instagram both employed moderators
who may lock the accounts of any users they suspect are under 13.
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