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Younger users flouting new YouTube, Instagram terms, reports reveal
Children may be signing up to apps with terms and conditions that only university students can understand, BBC research reveals.
The minimum age to use apps such as YouTube and Facebook is 13.
As well as using complex language, the BBC found that reading the terms of 15 popular sites would take almost nine hours in total.
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Firms could be breaching European data rules, which require them to clearly spell out how they use personal data.
In response to the findings, MP Damien Collins accused tech companies of using terms and conditions to “exploit” users’ data.
But several companies responded by saying they were working on improving the legibility of their legal documents by introducing easy-to-read summaries.
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