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The Gist: Age Verification is an Epic fail
From the 21st July 2025, Ireland’s regulator will be enforcing age checks at the door for social media sites in the EU. This is the Gist.
This is what I look like as I read Privacy PoliciesTo access Bluesky (and whatever other entities take this free route to ticking the age verification compliance box) we will have to agree to Epic Games's sytem getting the following data: I mean, we haven't accidentally issued a legal mandate for a huge commercially invaluable data honeypot on everyone's browsing and web activity history linked to their government ID, have we? The categories of information we disclose and our legal basis for doing so depends on the circumstances, but would include our legitimate interest in operating, selling and expanding our business" So, yeah, we've legislated for an exciting new kind of surveillance capitalism.
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