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IMAGE: Children of all ages can bypass age verification measures to sign-up to the world s most popular social media apps by simply lying about their age, a study led by Dr. view more
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Children of all ages can completely bypass age verification measures to sign-up to the world s most popular social media apps including Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, Skype and Discord by simply lying about their age, researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software have discovered.
And even potential age verification solutions identified by the research team can be easily sidestepped by children, according to the team s most recent study: Digital Age of Consent and Age Verification: Can They Protect Children?
Italy s Data Protection Authority has blocked access to TikTok for some users in the country who cannot prove their age, in the wake of the death of a 10-year-old girl attempting to take part in a dangerous "challenge."
The country s data regulator issued orders to block access to the social video site for any user who cannot definitively prove their age.
Italy's Data Protection Authority has blocked access to TikTok for some users in the country who cannot prove their age, in the wake of the death of a 10-year-old girl attempting to take part in a dangerous "challenge."
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If the past two years of ramping up compliance for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) wasn t fun enough, businesses have new compliance challenges ahead in the next couple of years. This past November, California voters passed the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). The CPRA was a ballot initiative that modifies and expands the CCPA. It adjusts the criteria for applicability, adds a category for sensitive personal information, gives individuals new rights and also expands some of the existing CPRA rights. It also creates a new private enforcement authority and adopts some principles from the GDPR. Businesses will need to start modifying their privacy practices ahead of the CPRA effective date, January 1, 2023.
Children s Advertising Review Unit Determines that Visual Supply Company App Is Not Directed Primarily or Secondarily to Children
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NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Children s Advertising Review Unit (CARU), a division of BBB National Programs, determined that Visual Supply Company (VSCO) is not an online service directed primarily or secondarily to children under age 13 as defined by the Children s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and CARU s own Guidelines for Online Privacy Protection.
Identified during CARU s routine monitoring program of child-directed content, VSCO markets a social media and photo editor app that has become well known to teens and tweens for the VSCO girl trend across several social media platforms.