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The legal mechanics behind age verification and children’s privacy | Commercial Awareness Compass #64
Children’s online privacy is colliding with a growing political push for age gating content. Recently, Australia has implemented a restriction on under 16s using social media and in the UK the House of Lords voted against the government in favour of a similar ban which will be discussed in the Commons. Now, platforms are being pressed to prove they can manage children’s access in a regulatory landscape that is narrowing.
The UK regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has made children’s privacy a priority and in February fined Imgur’s owner, Media Lab, £247,590 for children’s…
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