Prien also stressed that age-verification information should not be transmitted online and that social media companies should take primary responsibility for protecting minors.
"Any system will have to comply with data protection rules to minimize the amount of information collected about the user, without age-verification data being transmitted online. However, the primary responsibility for protecting minors lies with the social media platforms themselves," Prien spoke to German public broadcaster ZDF on Thursday September 17th.
Prien also highlighted media education and better information for parents as important measures alongside age verification.
Her comments came a day after European commission president Ursula von der Leyen proposed preventing children under 13 from accessing platforms including TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram.
Under the proposal, younger children could use supervised "mini -accounts" managed by their parents, with usage limited to one hour a day . Users would then be allowed to have their accounts from the age of 15.
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