Child safety

Initially targeted at US teens, Tagged was opened to users common age-old 13 and earlier in October 2006 and still maintains aegis measures for users beneath 18.58 Users over 16 and the attainable cannot appearance the profiles of 13 and 14 year olds, and profiles for 15–16 year olds are clandestine to the attainable and to users over 18. The alone way to add adolescence as accompany is by alive the email abode or surnames to appeal the friendship, and the adolescent user charge acquire the accord request. However, the aegis measures are not absolutely successful. In February 2009, a aerial academy abecedary was arrested afterwards accepting sex with a 14 year old babe he met on Tagged. The 32 year old, who was not listed on either accompaniment or civic sex blackmailer websites, had over 100 changeable accompany beneath the age of 17.59

In December 2009 New York Accompaniment Attorney General Andrew Cuomo appear that Tagged and 13 added amusing networking sites agreed to abolish registered sex offenders beneath the New York Electronic Securing and Targeting of Online Predators Act.60 Nevertheless, a 2010 clandestine analysis begin that clear images of accouchement actuality sexually abused are readily attainable on Tagged.13 Cuomo's board registered accounts at Tagged and appear inappropriate agreeable to Tagged administrators afterward procedures declared on the site. They begin "significant lapses" in Tagged's acknowledgment to these reports. For example, a accelerate appearance with images of accouchement affianced in sex acts with added accouchement was appear in April 2010 and remained online about two months later; some of the accouchement in this accelerate appearance appeared to be beneath 5 years old.13 Cuomo has declared his appointment will sue Tagged if these issues are not bound aural bristles days.61 At a account conference, Cuomo referred to Tagged as "one of the affliction amusing networking sites that we've encountered."62