Comment on Social media lobby group sues US State for protecting children from Meta, TikTok and Snapchat
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 8 months agoYou don’t think that the data the companies collect and analyse from their users don’t already give them a decent idea? How do you think targeted advertising works?
i_ben_fine@lemmy.one 8 months ago
That data is a very good guess, but not appropriate for legal application.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yeah for that you’d need some kind of datepicker field marked “birthday”.
lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Which then wouldn’t be a legally full verification of your age, thus the legislation would probably require some other means. We currently have a similar discussion in the EU regarding porn sites. Verification methods could be showing your id card and your face to a webcam, or showing up at a verification office in person (at least in germany we have this with our national postal service). Of course the porn sites don’t want to implement this. And I cannot really blame them. Nobody would give a random porn site their real identity and it would still be very easy to get porn without verification.
Age verification on social media is very similar.