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Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. (youtu.be)
submitted 14 hours ago by qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TLDW:

Brazil is requiring OS level age verification by march 17th, 2026.

New York about to vote on a law that would "require all manufacturers of internet-enabled devices, operating systems, or application stores to conduct commercially reason-able and technically feasible age assurance for users at the point of device activation."

In order to “incentivize” age verification, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that they will ignore COPPA violations for software performing age verification.

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[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 195 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

In order to “incentivize” age verification, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that they will ignore COPPA violations for software performing age verification.

COPPA prevents companies from collecting data on minors without parental consent.

Sounds like the Epstein Class is still in charge of the FTC.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 61 points 13 hours ago

Feels weird upvoting this comment. I have to remind myself. It's not you I'm mad at. You're not the one doing this. You're just the messanger.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 27 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The irony knows no bounds, the one half decent reason age verification could exists for is so these companies have no more excuses to ignore coppa because now they can just pretend everyone is a consenting adult.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 9 points 10 hours ago

The fact that there will be a signal implying a user is an adult will give all sorts of bad actors plausible deniability, perhaps even legal protection, for exploiting children, who will of course be bypassing it

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, this does not sound like it's going to make our children any safer.