Canada introduced Bill C-34, seeking to ban under-16s from social media and AI tools. While popular, critics warn the required universal age verification threatens privacy and creates a new regulator.
OTTAWA鈥擮ttawa is planning a move to join Australia as one of the only countries in the Free World to enact a national age restriction on social platforms. The move, while popular in the polls, has some critics raising privacy concerns.
The federal government has introduced what could become the most sweeping piece of digital safety legislation in Canadian history, tabling a bill last Wednesday that would bar anyone under the age of 16 from holding a social media account.
Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture Marc Miller introduced the long-awaited online harms bill in the House of Commons, which also puts controls around artificial intelligence chatbots. 鈥淲e鈥檙e failing our children. Enough is enough,鈥 said Minister Miller.
On June 10, the federal government tabled Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act鈥攍egislation that would bar Canadians under the age of 16 from holding social media accounts and create a powerful new federal regulator to police the internet.
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