Sweden plans to set age limit on social media

Sweden plans to set  an age limit as high as 16 on unsupervised access to social media sites like Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram etc, as new EU rules are to be enacted Into national legislation.

                                           

The government stated it would   launch a commission on implementing the EU Data Protection Directive, where it Will discuss the age limits, in reference  to the European Union's new law age limit set between 13 and 16 years.

Consumer Minister Per Bolund (MP) told Aftonbladet that be believed the new regulation could have positive effects. 

 

"If this gets more parents involved in what their children do online that's fine," he said. 

 

But he also stressed that Sweden had no choice but to enact the controversial regulation, which has been brought into European law in the face of staunch opposition from US social media companies, for whom teenagers are a key market. 

 

“The decree which was made at the EU level says that there should be a 16-year age limit, with the possibility of going down to a 13-year age limit," he told SVT. "This is a binding decree which must at some point enter Swedish law.” 

THÉ LOCAL SWEDEN