\u201cEstonia believes in an information society and including young people in the information society,\u201d Estonia\u2019s minister of justice and digital affairs, Liisa-Ly Pakosta, told POLITICO.<\/p>\n
Tallinn is in favor of enforcing existing rules designed to offer protections, such as the EU\u2019s General Data Protection Regulation, rather than changing the current age restrictions, Pakosta said. That bans children under 13 from consenting to their data being processed, with countries able to increase that threshold.<\/p>\n
An age limit on social media would be a \u201cvery easy thing to do,\u201d but countries should instead invest in better education for the digital age, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEstonia believes in an information society and including young people in the information society,\u201d said Pakosta.<\/p>\n
If one in 10 children has \u201cproblematic\u201d use of social media, as the declaration cites, then the government should figure out what is not working for these children, she added.<\/p>\n
Not setting a minimum age threshold for social media is an \u201ceasy way out,\u201d because \u201cit is a difficult decision to make and I can see it on a national level,\u201d Caroline Stage Olsen, Denmark\u2019s minister for digital government, told POLITICO when asked about Estonia\u2019s decision not to sign the EU-wide commitment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEstonia believes in an information society and including young people in the information society,\u201d Estonia\u2019s minister of justice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[785,767,1789,365,21469,1112,2000,299,5187,1699,7059,1115,7965,182,3053],"class_list":{"0":"post-489987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-alcohol","9":"tag-baltics","10":"tag-belgium","11":"tag-denmark","12":"tag-digital-services-act","13":"tag-estonia","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-european","17":"tag-european-union","18":"tag-iceland","19":"tag-norway","20":"tag-platforms","21":"tag-social-media","22":"tag-the-netherlands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115353421336330171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}