Ms Chloe Setter:

I am happy to address the points on age and on digital consent. I thank the Deputy for the questions. On the age of digital consent, GDPR requires every organisation that processes personal data to have a legal basis for doing so. Consent is one of the six legal bases allowed by the GDPR. For change to happen, in terms of the digital age of consent and the age at which people can come on the platform, that would need to be determined by additional regulation. That is something for regulators to decide, perhaps.

On the issue of age, we were the platform that highlighted that we remove 200 million suspected under-13 accounts on average each quarter across the world. When someone signs up to the platform in the first place, there is currently no off-the-shelf solution that would completely solve the issue of knowing the ages of users immediately.