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• @timsweeneyepic Tim Sweeney on x

  By passing these send-all-apps-your-private-data laws, politicians are breaking everyone's fundamental right to privacy, and are setting up parents and kids for a disaster as the weakest-link apps and vendors continue to leak everyone's data out.

• @timsweeneyepic Tim Sweeney on x

  Vendors like Epic's Kids Web Services help developers achieve compliance with as minimally invasive verification practices as possible. But the market is also filled with shady surveillance-oriented firms and novice app developers doing it themselves. https://www.kidswebservices.…

• @owenboswarva Owen Boswarva on x

  Reddit issued with £14.47m fine for children's privacy failures https://ico.org.uk/... press release from ICO (UK regulator) + coverage https://www.bbc.com/... Reddit reportedly plans to appeal the ICO action #ageverification #dataprotection #censorship #openweb #techpolicy [imag…

• @timsweeneyepic Tim Sweeney on x

  Apple is the only company with a great proposal here: let parents, who buy the devices used by kids, set up kids accounts and decide what they're allowed to do, then pass those decisions to apps through parental controls — without demanding anyone's identity papers.

• @aswren Adam Wren on x

  We're not the EU with a massive market. At some point these platforms will decide the cost & effort of compliance + fines is not worth the audience/revenue and just geoblock us

• @iconews Ico on x

  NEW: We've fined Reddit £14.47 million for failing to use children's information lawfully. Read more: https://ico.org.uk/... [image]

• r/unitedkingdom r on reddit

  UK fines Reddit for not checking user ages aggressively enough

• r/nottheonion r on reddit

  Reddit fined £14m by UK data watchdog over age verification checks

• r/technology r on reddit

  Reddit fined £14m by UK data watchdog over age verification checks

• r/ukpolitics r on reddit

  Reddit fined £14m by UK data watchdog over age check failings