Snapchat Owner Says It May Tighten Controls on Underage Users

  • Company defends its potentially addictive ‘Streaks’ feature
  • Social media are trying to prove they can protect young users
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The owner of Snapchat is working with British lawmakers on ways to stop underage users signing up to the popular social-media platform, its senior director of international public policy said Tuesday.

Snap Inc.’s Stephen Collins told a committee of senior policymakers he had met on Monday with a U.K. working group trying to solve the issue and that the “most sustainable solution” was some kind of central verification system.