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Laying the infrastructure for surveillance qualifies. Reporting age brackets to applications or websites via API definitely qualifies. (It reveals private info
by iamnothere 8mo ago
Laying the infrastructure for surveillance qualifies.
Reporting age brackets to applications or websites via API definitely qualifies. (It reveals private information about the user.)
I will proactively remove any such fields or signals from my installs, thank you very much. Although fortunately all of the OSes I use have signaled noncompliance.
- pocksuppet 8mo agoHow is it different from anything else that gets reported to applications, like the username? Knowing my name is "George" is actually much worse than knowing I'm over 18.
- iamnothere 8mo agoMy username is “anon”.
- pocksuppet 8mo agoAnd your age is 25, no matter what it actually is.
- iamnothere 8mo agoThe law doesn’t mandate that I have a username or that my username gets reported to those requesting it. This law can be expanded to require other things, like verification, or collection of legal names. What’s to say that reporting a false age to a service isn’t some kind of criminal fraud? There’s a thousand things wrong with it.
- pocksuppet 8mo agoBut you do have a username and it is reported to apps. > What’s to say that reporting a false age to a service isn’t some kind of criminal fraud? Uh, the law?
- iamnothere 8mo agoDid you know that giving false information to a service in order to bypass security measures (such as age gating) can be considered a violation of the CFAA? That’s a felony by the way.
- pocksuppet 8mo agoAge gating isn't a security measure.