The Delhi High Court have ordered the central government to outcome a law for the online protection of the children from being distracted towards the social networking sites . The court have asked the one of the largest social networking site Facebook to display a message on its home page that children below the age of 13 years cannot open an account on it.
The senior advocate Parag Tripathi has assured that the Facebook will display message on its home page. The division bench of acting chief justice B.D Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru asked facebook not to allow the children below 13 years, from opening an account.
Lawer Verrag Gupta told to the court the recent incident in Gurgaon is the outcome of the guidelines by Facebook where police found children involved in sex and smoke party. The children were gathered in Facebook and the event is managed through the social networking site.
Facebook replied to the court that the children below the age of 13 will not be eligible to create an account in Facebook. However some could access by providing false information, minors can only share content with friends, friends of those friends and network i.e. school, whereas the adults can share the content with all the Facebook users and there were different privacy settings for minors.
Google was also one the high court asked to restrict the minors from using social networking sites in its reply, said that every user before creating an account is made to create an email account and then the access is provided through mail. If the user was below 13, he cannot open an account in social networking site.
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