Von der Leyen is right to reject a blanket kids’ social media ban — but her plan still lets Big Tech off the hook
· michiel van hulten
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The EU has left the door open to age-estimation by behavioural profiling, and the EU's own data protection authorities have warned that this can be more intrusive than the verification it replaces, inferring age from a user's activity at scale, with weaker accuracy for the children it is meant to protect.
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