WhatsApp has quietly updated its terms of service for users in the UK, increasing the minimum accepted age from 16 to 18. The ...

The Meta-owned messaging app raised the age requirement from 13 to 16 in Europe in 2018. However, it decided to change that earlier this year, saying it wanted to bring the app in line with the 13 ...

Messaging service WhatsApp is to lower its minimum age requirement in Ireland and across Europe from 16 to 13. The app, which is owned by social media giant Meta, said it is making the change to ...

This new move will standardize it again. The company said it was done to "ensure a consistent minimum age requirement for WhatsApp globally.” These changes are wide-ranging and, according to the ...

WhatsApp hasn’t detailed exactly how the age verification process will work or if anyone will be able to enter any birth date as form of verification. WhatsApp cares deeply about your privacy ...

Whatsapp is making changes to some of their ... to users throughout the world and is not specific to Europe like the age requirement. Conversation surrounding internet privacy has recently just ...

WhatsApp goes down for global users If teenagers find a way to get around WhatsApp’s age requirement, which they surely will because the messaging service doesn’t seem to be putting up any ...

Facebook, WhatsApp’s parent company, meanwhile, has a separate data policy of its own. Its approach in terms of the age requirement is also slightly different from WhatsApp. Teens aged between ...

Users in Europe and the UK previously had to be at least 16 to use WhatsApp while in other countries the requirement was 13 WhatsApp is lowering the minimum age for users from 16 to 13. The ...

INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICE WhatsApp has lowered its minimum age requirement in Ireland from 16 to 13. WhatsApp – like Facebook and Instagram – is owned by parent company Meta. Previously ...

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