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The next update of WhatsApp, 2.19.222 , will be the beginning of a function that will eliminate those who are under 16 from the messaging application, the minimum age allowed in their terms of service for the European region, according to WABetaInfo. In the rest of the world the minimum age is 13 years.
At the moment it is not known how the application will be owned by Facebook (something that, by the way, begins to remember inside) to detect these accounts or how to ban them. Doing so by phone number, for example, could be a problem if it is later assigned to another person or when the minor exceeds the minimum age.
In any case, the minimum age was established long ago: the last update of the terms of service dates from 2018 , but already in the 2012 document it was specified that it could only be used by people over 16 years old. In 2016 it was lowered to 13 years to rise again in Europe with the most recent update.
There are many applications used by minors who skip the restriction without companies doing much about it, beyond leaving the responsibility in the hands of users. Twitter, for example, automatically blocks any account that changes its date of birth to 2007, as this means having less than 13 years.
Thus, it remains to be seen how WhatsApp will check the age of its 500 million active daily users (1.5 billion use the application monthly), although at the moment it has only begun the development of this function with version 2.19.222.
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