WhatsApp plans to ban under-16s. The mystery is how | Charles Arthur

The Facebook-owned company won’t be able to stop European under-16s using its service, but it will interesting seeing it try

• WhatsApp raises minimum age to 16 in Europe

The gigantically popular messaging app WhatsApp has announced that from 25 May it is raising the minimum age for users to 16 – but only in the European Union. It’s a remarkable ambition, one that every government and online service around the world will be amazed by if it actually succeeds. You know “on the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”? Nobody knows how old (or young) a dog you are, either.

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