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At Meta, millions of underage users were an 'open secret,' show court filing (economictimes.com)
submitted 11 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] Klear@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Given the frequency of user data leaks pretty much everywhere, nah, practically no difference there.

[โ€“] realharo@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

For age verification specifically, they are supposed to just set a "verified" flag in their database and remove the rest of the data within some amount of time (not more than a month I think).

I wouldn't trust some random nobody to do this, but big companies should have processes that comply with privacy laws.