News Summary

• The move would give some parents — after a specific assessment — the right to let their children access social media from age 13.
• It wasn’t immediately clear how such a ban would be enforced: Many tech platforms already restrict pre-teens from signing up.
• Denmark has a national electronic ID system — nearly all Danish citizens over age 13 have such an ID — and plans to set up an age-verification app.
• It follows a move in December in Australia, where parliament enacted the world’s first ban on social media for children.