Latvia PDPL Section 16 Children Consent Age - Latvia adopts age 13 as the digital consent threshold for direct provision of Information Society Services to children (lower than GDPR Article 8(1) default of 16, exercising the Member State derogation permitted to set anywhere between 13-16). One of the lowest digital consent ages in EU + EU comparison: Belgium 13 + Denmark 13 + Estonia 13 + Finland 13 + Latvia 13 + Malta 13 + Poland 13 + Portugal 13 + Spain 14 + Cyprus 14 + Italy 14 + UK 13 + Bulgaria 14 + Austria 14 + Hungary 16 + Germany 16 + Netherlands 16 + Ireland 16 + Luxembourg 16 + Romania 16 + Slovenia 16. Below age 13: parental consent required + reasonable efforts to verify parental consent + age verification mechanisms (account creation with date-of-birth + parental email/SMS verification + payment-card verification + ID-document verification for higher-risk processing) + age-appropriate design + Online Safety considerations + UNICEF Children Rights coordination + Latvian National Centre for Education guidance + EU Better Internet for Kids strategy.
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