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Re:ThreeUK blocks access to encrypted provider Tutanota due ... by lxgr on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @07:43AM (#33982711)
How would having a credit card prove somebody‘s age?
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Re:ThreeUK blocks access to encrypted provider Tutanota due ... by pmx on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @07:45AM (#33982728)
You have to be 18 to get a credit card
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Re:ThreeUK blocks access to encrypted provider Tutanota due ... by lxgr on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @10:50AM (#33985170)
That's definitely not the case everywhere. I've had a credit card before I was 18.
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Re:ThreeUK blocks access to encrypted provider Tutanota due ... by Nextgrid on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @10:54AM (#33985252)
It doesn't have to be perfect - the blocking thing is only a regulatory compliance and PR thing about how they're "protecting" children. As long as the regulators are happy and the PR is working, nobody internally cares or wants to make it 100% bulletproof (also because making it so will increase the support burden helping users who can't use the bulletproof verification flow despite being over 18).
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