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  • Good - the lobbyists are losing the war.

    Now it is time to disband Facebook - companies leveraging lobbyists to try to destroy democracies, must be disbanded.

    by shevy-java
  • Seems like there are many ways to get toward the best of both worlds -- don't allow people to upload pictures of kids who are clearly under 15 to social media would get us a lot of the way there.

    Also all of these companies know from advertising data, and location data, that you are at school, who you are, etc. They would also know that all of your friends are also teenagers.

    If the law is serious there are many many ways to enforce this without violating privacy.

    by zug_zug
  • As french citizen what I can say is: Parliamentary time wasted. During the initial work the deputees that have initiated the project could have figured out that the constitutional court would, in fine, block the text.
    by sixthDot
  • The right implementation is to have parents mark certain devices as "under 18", and then have those devices perform accordingly.

    This give parents useful control, and removes the state overreach.

    by paulsutter
  • This is the correct response. Privacy is a human right.
    by josefritzishere
  • The title is unfortunately edited. The courts have blocked it. The government wants it.
    by graemep
  • This could have been an http header. It's hard to identify people, but blocking child-locked devices should be easy, since the devices can be built to cooperate.

    Then it's up to parents to give their kids child-locked devices and for stores to not sell unlocked devices to kids.

    by skybrian
  • The court reasoned sensibly: it's wrong to violate the rights of all citizens just to weed out a small group of violators. This is contrary to data protection regulations. The controversial Chat Control law follows the same logic: to find criminals, they propose monitoring everyone.

    The problem is that any age verification system effectively becomes an identity verification system. And such tools rarely remain "just for kids"—they quickly become used for other purposes. The only secure way is to verify not the person's identity, but the device's status (for example, that it's a children's device). This is called age assurance: we confirm age without knowing who exactly is in front of us.

    by azhdanova

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