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Britain Set to Adopt New Online Privacy Protections for Children

By Chris Noble
· · Source: The New York Times

Britain is set to adopt a new set of online privacy protections for children that are more strict than those currently in place in the U.S. and many other countries, the New York Times reported. The new rules, once adopted, will require online services such as Instagram and YouTube to turn on the most restrictive privacy settings by default for minors, and shut off by default functions such as...

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