Users must be at least 13 years old to use Grok, and users aged 13 to 17 must have explicit parental or guardian permission and agreement to the Terms of Service.
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The agreement acknowledges that certain features may produce outputs involving coarse language, sexual situations, or violence, and places responsibility on parents to monitor use and configure data controls for teenage users.
The terms establish 13 as the minimum age for service access, require parental consent and agreement to Terms of Service for users aged 13 to 17, and acknowledge that certain features may produce age-inappropriate outputs. The agreement places the responsibility for configuring appropriate feature settings on parents or guardians.
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You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age required in your country) to use Threads. If you are under 18, you must have your parent or legal guardian's permission to use Threads.
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"You must be at least 13 years old or the minimum age required in your country to use the Service, and you must confirm that you meet the minimum age requirement. If you are a teenager between the ages of 13 and 17 years old, you must have your parent or legal guardian's permission to use the Service, and they must agree to our Terms of Service. While we have taken measures to limit undesirable training data and outputs, depending on the features that you choose to use, the Service could produce output that is not appropriate for all ages.— Excerpt from xAI's xAI Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The minimum age of 13 and parental consent requirement engage COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), which applies to operators of online services directed to children under 13 or where the operator has actual knowledge of users under 13. The FTC is the primary enforcement authority for COPPA. For users aged 13 to 15 in EU jurisdictions, GDPR Article 8 requires parental consent for processing personal data, with the age threshold varying by member state between 13 and 16. The UK Age Appropriate Design Code imposes additional requirements for services accessible to users under 18. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High for regulatory compliance. The acknowledgment that outputs may include sexual situations, coarse language, or violence for certain features, combined with access permitted from age 13, creates regulatory exposure under COPPA, GDPR Article 8, and the UK Age Appropriate Design Code. The adequacy of the age verification and parental consent mechanism is the critical compliance question. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU member states set GDPR consent age between 13 and 16; services accessible to users aged 13 must assess compliance in each member state. The UK Age Appropriate Design Code applies to services likely to be accessed by users under 18 and requires age-appropriate default settings and privacy protections. California's Age-Appropriate Design Code Act may also apply. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Educational institutions or organizations deploying Grok in contexts accessible to minors should assess COPPA and FERPA compliance. The parental consent mechanism described in the terms should be evaluated for adequacy under applicable regulatory standards. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Legal teams should audit the age verification mechanism and parental consent flow for compliance with COPPA, GDPR Article 8, and applicable state laws. The statement that parents must use data controls to select appropriate features implies that the service is not age-gated by feature by default, which may warrant review under the UK Age Appropriate Design Code's privacy by default standard.
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The agreement acknowledges that certain features may produce outputs involving coarse language, sexual situations, or violence, and places responsibility on parents to monitor use and configure data controls for teenage users.
The terms establish 13 as the minimum age for service access, require parental consent and agreement to Terms of Service for users aged 13 to 17, and acknowledge that certain features may produce age-inappropriate outputs. The agreement places the responsibility for configuring appropriate feature settings on parents or guardians.
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