On Wednesday 26 November, the European Parliament adopted by 483 votes to 92, with 86 abstentions, the own-initiative report by Christel Schaldemose (S&D, Danish) on the protection of minors online (see EUROPE B13732A9), the key measure of which is to ban minors under the age of 16 from social networking sites and to introduce an age verification mechanism for access to them.
The MEPs would like to see the EU harmonise the age limit for access to social networks, ideally at 16, but with...