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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

Children's safety is non-negotiable.

We've asked Snapchat, YouTube, Apple and Google to provide information on age checks, recommender systems and app store risks.

Under the Digital Services Act, they must prove how they protect minors from harmful content and illegal products.

More 👉 https://link.europa.eu/nkJBRV

#DSA

A laptop surrounded by yellow stars and icons representing online safety, privacy, and ad restrictions. Text reads: 'DIGITAL SERVICES ACT – Snapchat, YouTube, Apple and Google to provide information to ensure child safety online.' European Commission logo at the bottom.
A laptop surrounded by yellow stars and icons representing online safety, privacy, and ad restrictions. Text reads: 'DIGITAL SERVICES ACT – Snapchat, YouTube, Apple and Google to provide information to ensure child safety online.' European Commission logo at the bottom.
A laptop surrounded by yellow stars and icons representing online safety, privacy, and ad restrictions. Text reads: 'DIGITAL SERVICES ACT – Snapchat, YouTube, Apple and Google to provide information to ensure child safety online.' European Commission logo at the bottom.
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Régis Attila
@regisattila@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@EUCommission
Dès que des pays souhaitent mettre en place des mesures liberticides liées au numérique, ils invoquent la protection des enfants. Le Royaume-Uni a d’ailleurs utilisé la même rhétorique pour restreindre l’usage des intelligences artificielles open source.
C'est une honte de voir ça en Europe et d'autant plus honteux de savoir que la France est favorable. Merci à l'Allemagne de donner de l'espoir aux citoyens européens qui ont un minimum de culture numérique !

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Chewie
@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@EUCommission https://www.404media.co/the-discord-hack-is-every-users-worst-nightmare/

404 Media

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive information online.
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Ivan Tsenov 🇧🇬 🇺🇦
@tsenov@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@EUCommission
Harmful content and especially illegal products are bad for adults as well. So let's just make Meta, Google and the others step up their game on this.
Also - force them to stop tracking people. Force them to stop using brutal algorithms to keep people stuck to the screens.
Fine them when they drown people with illegal or malicious ads.
Our company had to jump through hoops for a week to be allowed to publish one ad. Meanwhile, front page ads are full of scams.

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Panta Rhei
@pantaRhei@freiburg.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@EUCommission well, it takes two for tango - typically minors don't just buy a smartphone or computer (to access Snapchat, etc.) on their own.

Access to these devices is given to them. Whomever grant minors access to such devices would then be in charge to teach them the proper use (imo.).

What measures are planned on this end?
(E.g. programs to teach unaware/disinterested parents the basics of using Information Technology?)

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hnapel
@hnapel@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@EUCommission

Private communication is non-negotiable.

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alexmu
@alexmu@social.vivaldi.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@EUCommission age checking is a flawed system. How about you actually educate the parents and kids on how to be responsible when using the internet and have law enforcement agencies crack down on child abuse rings? Maybe that would be a better idea than covertly undermining every single citizen's privacy.

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Ivan Tsenov 🇧🇬 🇺🇦
@tsenov@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@EUCommission Stop with this age verification! Internet should be open. There was a data leaked of personal information exactly because of your stupid age verification!
And NO! We don't want your "digital ID". Sooner or later this digital ID will become a tool for tracking and censorship!

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Nelsson Huotari
@unelsson@mastodontti.fi replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@EUCommission How about using an AI agent to all clients to detect and supervise minors browsing sexual content? Or perhaps deny data encryption in digital services to provide better access to private data for men in the middle?

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Xavier Martínez 🇺🇦🇵🇸:estelada:
@xavizardknight@mastodont.cat replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@EUCommission

You are worrying about children's internet safety while promoting age checks, which are well known to be a bad tool for internet safety due to the risk of sensitive and personal identifiable data being mistreated, shared and/or leaked.

Don't let companies do the parent's job.

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@ranx@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@EUCommission nobody's gonna follow you on this... no wait... maybe Orban, Salvini & friends will!

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flossifatal598
@flossifatal598@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

@EUCommission How do you plan on having age verification without compromising people privacy?

There is no Digital ID that allow for provable anonymity while doing age verification.

There is one solution: 100% local "parental" control on kids device. You can even make it mandatory if you don't trust parents, but for god's sake do not mandate online verification, only local verification is compatible with privacy and it is a more robust solution (cannot be bypassed by VPN)

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