In this film, Punter Southall Law’s Jonathan Armstrong discusses restricting children’s access to social media with Eric Sinrod, a professor and attorney at Duane Morris LLP. This is episode 299 in the popular TechLaw10 series. You can listen to earlier podcasts here.
Jonathan & Eric discuss various aspects of this, including:
- New laws to deal with access to social media for children in the US, UK, EU, Australia & Indonesia
- Existing US laws, including COPPA
- The issues with age verification apps
- Attempts to protect children in GDPR
- The dangers for businesses in hosting P2P discussions online
Jonathan discusses proposed UK legislation that could criminalize certain aspects of social media. You can track Bill here.
Jonathan talks about the EU AI Act. There are FAQs on that here: https://bit.ly/euaifaq. There is also a glossary of AI terms here.
If you have concerns about the safe use of social media for children, there are resources to help here:
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-…
Eric Sinrod’s details can be found here, and Jonathan Armstrong’s details are available here.
The TechLaw10 LinkedIn group is here.
