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Re:Privacy Commissioners find TikTok collected sensitive dat... by daedrdev on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @04:51PM (#45352594)
It's clear every site on the internet without id checks (and even those who do check id since people can lie) are accessed by minors, I'm not sure what they expect.
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Re:Privacy Commissioners find TikTok collected sensitive dat... by criddell on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @05:01PM (#45352703)
They are collecting this data in order to use it for advertising. Google, Meta, and TikTok know a crazy amount about the people they are tracking. There’s no way they don’t know (or couldn’t make a great guess) about the age.
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Re:Privacy Commissioners find TikTok collected sensitive dat... by ajjahs on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @05:23PM (#45352932)
this stuff is always pushed by people with either no technical understanding at all or just bad intentions
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Re:Privacy Commissioners find TikTok collected sensitive dat... by dylan604 on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @05:49PM (#45353200)
Not sure why this was marked dead when it's not wrong. The people in Congress/Parliament are not the most tech savvy people, and pretty much just do what their lobbyists recommend even if they don't understand the full implications.
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