Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Anti-Discrimination Policy

Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by rconti on Friday April 30, 2021 @02:04AM (#26990269)

I was so perplexed because I thought maybe they weren't targeting people under age 25 specifically because of some kind of anti-predation-of-young-people regulation.

I could just as easily seen an outrage that Facebook was showing credit card ads to 12 year olds.

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Re:Credit Card Ads Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Ant... by astura on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:49AM (#26995030)

Specifically excluding minors from viewing ads for financial products wouldn't be illegal according to the wikipedia quoted above

>unlawful for any creditor to discriminate against any applicant, with respect to any aspect of a credit transaction, on the basis of [...] age (provided the applicant has the capacity to contract);

Minors don't have the capacity to contract.

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