Break privacy to make privacy? Age verification isn’t the answer
www.openrightsgroup.org
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently published an open letter to online platforms providers, calling them “to strengthen age assurance measures to ensure young children are not accessing services that are not designed for them”.
  • brillotti@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    I heard Facebook has been lobbying for age verification in order to solve the problem of serving ads to real people, as there’s too much bot traffic online to make good profits from ads nowadays.

    • schnurritoOPEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      I also read that Facebook has been lobbying for (OS-level) age verification, but not for this reason…

      If that were the reason, why don’t they just force their users to verify their identities? They could always do that as far as I’m concerned, that doesn’t need to affect any other platforms.

      • taco@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        If that were the reason, why don’t they just force their users to verify their identities?

        Probably realize that a non-trivial percentage of their userbase values not verifying their identity to facebook than they value being on facebook. They’d rather someone else be the bad guy, if they can do it while still reaping the benefits.

      • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zipEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        They track everyone who visits a site that has a “share on Facebook” button, so they want this info for way more people than are visiting their actual sites.