'Age-appropriate design' to make Facebook and Twitter safer for kids

Facebook and Twitter are to be made safer for younger users as the government has agreed to legislate a code of practice for social media sites setting out a minimum standard for “age-appropriate design”. 
The move follows campaigning from peers and children’s charities, including the NSPCC and Children’s Society, to have safeguards such as applying the highest possible settings to children’s accounts by default and terms and conditions “in a language chi