Facebook-owned messaging service will demand users confirm they are broken-down enough to expend app after raising age limit from 13 WhatsApp is raising the minimum user age from 13 to 16,potentially locking out large numbers of teenagers as the messaging app looks to comply with the EU’s new data protection rules.
The Facebook-owned messaging service that has more than 1.5 billion users will question people in the 28 EU states to confirm they are 16 or older as allotment of a prompt to accept a new terms of service and an updated privacy policy in the next few weeks.
The European Union's new stronger, unified data protection laws, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),will come into force on 25 May 2018, after more than six years in the making.
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Source: theguardian.com