News Summary

• YouTube on Tuesday announced it’s beginning to roll out age-estimation technology in the U.S. to identify teen users.
• The company says it will use a variety of signals to determine the users’ possible age, regardless of what the user entered as their birthday when they signed up for an account.
• When YouTube identifies a user as a teen, it introduces new protections and experiences.
• These include disabling personalized advertising, limiting repetitive viewing of certain types of content, and enabling digital well-being tools such as screen time and bedtime reminders.