Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…
The people of the UK are heroes to us EU people, they try out all of the bold ideas that are sometimes floated around here, and show us all just how stupid they are. Let’s hope that this will convince enough people here that privacy is, in fact, a very delicate thing and that maybe they should actually listen to all of the technical people sounding the alarm when another overreaching regulation is proposed.
The people of the UK are heroes to us EU people, they try out all of the bold ideas that are sometimes floated around here, and show us all just how stupid they are. Let’s hope that this will convince enough people here that privacy is, in fact, a very delicate thing and that maybe they should actually listen to all of the technical people sounding the alarm when another overreaching regulation is proposed.
Unless there is enormous backlash this will move forward in the EU too. France, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Greece to test age verification app to “protect children” in the EU and it’s run as a framework for the whole EU.