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Twitter to revive accounts suspended by age restriction
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IANS | 13 Jun, 2018
Twitter has announced to reinstate those accounts that were locked down
owing to age restriction after the new European Union (EU) privacy law
came into force on May 25.
In a series of tweets, the
micro-blogging platform said on Wednesday that it did not expect the
lockdown to happen as some users who opened their accounts when they
were 13 are now old enough to use the platform.
Accounts created
by those under 13, were frozen owing to the General Data Protection Law
(GDPR) which stipulates that the age of consent for using online
services should not be lower than 13.
"We recently made product
changes tied to new privacy laws (GDPR) and became aware of accounts
that were set up by people when they were younger than 13. We didn't
expect this," Twitter Support said in a tweet.
"These accounts
were automatically locked, and we created additional confusion by
sending messages to people saying that they're still under 13 (when many
are now older) and need to close their accounts," it added.
Twitter
said its rules don't allow anyone under 13 to tweet or create a Twitter
account so it is working on a technical solution to delete those Tweets
and allow the impacted account holders to continue on Twitter.
"In
the meantime, we're reaching out to people impacted with options to
unlock their account and continue to use Twitter. Instructions from us
will come during the coming week," the micro-blogging platform said,
apologising for the confusion and the inconvenience caused to those who
were affected.
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