Recital 48

Given the evolving nature of cross-cutting risks that minors may be exposed to within the online world, which is driven by constant innovation, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFUE should be delegated to the Commissions in order to amend the prohibitions on practices intended, or which can reasonably be foreseen, to encourage compulsive or excessive use of the service by minors, the measures ensuring that recommender systems are designed in way that ensures a high level of privacy, safety and security of minors, the default settings ensuring minors’ accounts are set to a high level of privacy, safety and security, the measures ensuring a high level of privacy, safety and security of minors as regards contacts between minors and other recipients of the service, the measures limiting the visibility of any information shared by minors and their interactions with other recipients of the service, the measures ensuring a high level of protection of health, safety, fundamental rights and well-being of minors that may access AI companions and general conversational chatbot systems, the measures ensuring a high level of privacy, safety and security of minors on online games, and the measures ensuring agency for minors. This aims at ensuring that the measures on safety by design remain effective and keep pace with practices Such amendments should be limited to what is necessary to address minors’ privacy, safety and security.