Should children be protected more online?

We ask the people of Cardiff whether the decision to change the age on What’sApp from 16 down to 13 was right or wrong.

Transcript

00:00 Definitely, yeah. I think that's the thing that freaks me out most about having a child

00:04 is that internet security is so different to what we grew up with. Facebook wasn't even

00:09 a thing when we were teenagers. So all these things that now I think parents won't really

00:14 be clued up on just because we didn't grow up with it and then so they do need to be

00:18 stronger.

00:19 Social media, I think we do need to kind of have more of a security stand. Like definitely

00:27 there's so many loopholes that children go through. Like personally myself, I did go

00:31 through the little loopholes when I was younger and it was so easy to access things that I

00:35 shouldn't have been accessing when I was younger. But yeah, it's definitely a thing of so many

00:40 apps and just in general have to really keep on with security and kind of make it more

00:44 important.

00:45 How do you stop a child who's, you know, how can a child sign up who's 16 or 30? How does

00:54 that work?

00:55 What checks are put in place for a 13 year old?

00:57 Thank you.