French Parliament approves the veto of social networks for children under 15

Published at: 22/07/2026 10:19 AM

The French Parliament gave the green light this Tuesday to a law that prohibits access to social platforms to users who have not reached the age of fifteen, an initiative that places the French country as a European pioneer in establishing this type of legal obstacles before the start of the next school year.

The support for the rule materialized with two hundred and forty-three favorable votes in the Senate and two hundred and seventy-nine in the National Assembly, after a long legislative period that lasted several months, while the text imposes on digital giants such as TikTok or Facebook the obligation to develop their own systems to certify the age of those who register for their services, international media reported.

Consultation spaces such as virtual encyclopedias, open-source pedagogical projects and free software tools fall outside the scope of this restriction, while the provision tightens the conditions for the use of mobile phones in secondary schools, although it gives a certain amount of room for maneuver to the internal regulations of each institution.

The groups located on the leftist spectrum disagreed with the effects that the measure may have on anonymity in cyberspace and focused on the possible dangers derived from authentication methods, while representatives in the lower house warned about the capture of confidential information through biometric tools and artificial intelligence algorithms used to verify the identity of Internet users.

Mazo News Team