The new European data protection law came into force last Friday and we are gradually becoming aware of its effects. As technology companies adapt to it, which means the arrival of the first actions. Twitter is one of the companies that is taking action. In your case, they are blocking users who were under the age of 13 when their account was created.
Part of the law assumes that websites and applications must ensure that minors do not have access to our accounts on them. That’s why the social network starts with this account blocking, thus complying with the law.
Users who suffer this receive a message from the company saying that they are blocked for this reason. In it, they are required to have parental consent in order to continue using this account. Otherwise, the account will be removed from Twitter completely. A problem for users who are now of legal age as well, but created an account when they were teenagers.
From now on, 13 years is the minimum age to open an account on the popular social network. Although many young people open accounts with false birth dates, it’s an average that doesn’t really promise to have much effect in practice.
We’ll see how many accounts end up being blocked or deleted by these new actions on Twitter. Since it will undoubtedly be interesting information to know. Will this measure have any effect?