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Facebook paves the way for children to join

2017-01-19T00:00:00

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Facebook is working on a system which would enable children under the age of 13 to join the social network. A patent published in June showed that the company has designs for a system that would allow under-13s to use the site while supervised by parents, to comply with the US laws surrounding children’s privacy on-line.

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