Meta's own terms indicate its services aren't for children under 13.
Yet Meta is failing to keep them off Instagram and Facebook.
We've found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act.
ℹ️ link.europa.eu/yPBWgY
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@EUCommission Very good. now do something about THIS:
@EUCommission but how can meta - and all other apps//pages with age limit - check without asking for an ID - which is asking (again) for something private, and imho much too far beyond privacy limits.
Agreed: just ban them.
@EUCommission That's the job of the parents. Don't rely on giving the identity of EU citizens to Google to enforce age control.
@EUCommission good finding.
Nevertheless, I do not think that vetting user information and making that vetted info accessible to companies who are in breach of the law and whose business model is based on extracting as-correct-as-possible user information is a good solution.
I am of course referring to age verification.
And before anyone mentions zero knowledge proofs: I doubt it will turn out that way.
@EUCommission just ban Meta and all other platforms hunger for citizens data and invasive algorithms. What's is bad for children is also bad for adults, instead ID checks that will invade Europeans privacy ban all the platforms that are unhealthy for the people.
@EUCommission nice catch. Ironically, it's Meta who spent tons of money lobbying for the age verification laws in the USA. It would seem "they can dish it, but not take it".
@EUCommission If the Digital Services Act introduces "age check" (identity disclosure) requirements for social media then *that* is the issue here.
@EUCommission Whereas the IMO EU support for genocide of children under 13 in Middle East is not in breach of anything?
Also, banning people from communicating with other people based on their age, isn't that ageism discrimination? What about freedom of speech? What about human rights?
And cooperating with a country led by at least an associate of rapist pedofile human trafficker gang is also not in breach of anything?
@EUCommission The link isn't clickable, by the way.
@EUCommission There are two things.
1. It shouldn't be META's responsibility in this case. You do not jail a store because they failed to keep the shop-lifters away.
2. On the other hand, if they are spying on any user (even not their users) then they are sure to have the age estimates of their users and thus be able to filter them.
From all the reasons, however, I found the inability to filter users that are underaged to be the least concerning.
@EUCommission yet parents are not keeping their children off the platform. So take your hands off my children EU.
@EUCommission Why don't you launch wide public campaign then? There are a lot of parents, who don't know they could (and should) restrict their children access to social applications. Moreover, I encountered teachers at public schools requiring children under 13 accounts in Messenger for contact purposes. They were surprised, when we pointed it is in breach with end user agreement and it is parents responsibility which apps children can use. That shouldn't happen.
@EUCommission Ma chissene importa?! Questi violano la privacy e la libertà di tutti i cittadini dell'Unione!
@EUCommission The solution would be to make metas services safe for users under 13. That would make it better for everyone. Doubling down on the age checks, makes us all more vulnerable.
