🚨 BREAKING 🚨

The UK Information Commissioner's Office and Ofcom are pushing for tech companies to strengthen age checks.

It's disastrous that the ICO wants to somehow 'protect children’s data' by compelling 13-18 year olds to use poorly regulated digital identification products that could put their biometric data at risk.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home…

#ageverification #privacy #digitalid #ofcom #ico #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol

Watchdogs call on big tech to ‘urgently’ do more to protect children online

The regulators accused tech platforms of ‘failing to put children’s safety at the heart of their products’

^{Nicole Wootton-Cane (The Independent)}