The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Reddit £14.47 million (over $19.5 million) for collecting and using the personal information of children under 13 without adequate safeguards.

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    1 month ago

    data protection law as an excuse to require age verification, have we had that before anywhere?

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        1 month ago

        A central principle of data protection is data minimization. Forcing any institution to store extra data in order to know whether a user is old enough to consent to data processing is beyond absurd.

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            The problem is that our governments aren’t Democratic. Who am I supposed to vote for to stop this? It’s bipartisan. Wealth inequality has gotten so.bad we no longer have any real control over our lives