{"id":992764,"date":"2026-02-17T08:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992764"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:31:16","slug":"uk-eyes-rapid-ban-on-under-social-media-for-under-16s-curbs-to-ai-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/17\/uk-eyes-rapid-ban-on-under-social-media-for-under-16s-curbs-to-ai-chatbots\/","title":{"rendered":"UK eyes rapid ban on under social media for under 16s, curbs to AI chatbots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain \u200bcould bring in an Australian-style ban on social media for children under 16 as early as this year and close a loophole that left some AI chatbots outside safety rules, as part of government efforts to respond more quickly to digital risks. <\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Keir Starmer&#8217;s government last month launched \u200ca consultation on a \u2060social media \u2060ban for children under 16 and is now working to change legislation so it could bring in any changes within months of the consultation concluding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain \u200bcould bring in an Australian-style ban on social media for children under 16 as early as this year and close a loophole that left some AI chatbots outside safety rules, as part of government efforts to respond more quickly to digital risks. Prime Minister Keir Starmer&#8217;s government last month launched \u200ca consultation on a \u2060social media \u2060ban for children under 16 and is now working to change legislation so it could bring in any changes within months of the consultation concluding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}