Ms Alex Cooney:

I echo all those points. On the reference to the digital age of consent introduced three years ago, we know that despite all the debates at the time about the appropriate age and different European countries opting for different ages while we opted for 16, ultimately, it did not really matter, because the companies collect the data anyway. They just do not use consent as the basis to collect it. Professor Sonia Livingstone in the UK and others have done some very good research on this. These things need to be meaningful. If we are to spend all this time, effort and investment of resources the measures need to work. I agree that we should be protecting children's data and not micro-profiling them. TikTok introduced measures this year committed to not micro-profiling 13- to 16-year-olds so that should apply to any platform used by a 13- to 16-year-old. We should be seeing these measures much more widely utilised.

I agree with the points about consultation. There should be many opportunities built in for young people to have their say. Again, we must look at the different age ranges. Older young people will have a different view from those under 13, but we need to understand all of it.