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FTC declines to enforce a kids privacy law for data collected to verify users’ ages

Source: The Verge - All Posts

Article note: This is exactly the opposite of what I'd like.
A blurred out image of two people with a date entry form.

The Federal Trade Commission is encouraging companies to adopt age verification technologies by announcing it will not enforce a children's online privacy law against certain websites that collect and use minors' personal data in order to verify their ages.

"Age verification technologies are some of the most child-protective technologies to emerge in decades," Christopher Mufarrige, the director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a press release. "Our statement incentivizes operators to use these innovative tools, empowering parents to protect their children online."

There are certain criteria that websites need to meet in order …

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Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Oh look, a literal "Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus" This is DIRECTLY the beginning of the dystopia in Marshall Brain's Manna (2003). (I have complicated feelings about Manna, because the utopian alternative in it is also a privacy-less dystopia, and I'm not sure if it's intended as a good thing)
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