Neil Brown1d ago

The ICO and Ofcom have now published the anticipated "Joint statement from ICO and Ofcom on age assurance"

https://ico.org.uk/media2/5ybpmabf/ofcom-ico-joint-statement.pdf

This is quite important, since both regulators seem to want a piece of the online safety pie.

#OnlineSafetyAct

Show thread[384992] Ellie Winters   1d ago

@neil havent even opened the document yet and i feel like this is going to be horrible

time to localsend this to my tablet to view

Show thread[384992] Ellie Winters   1d ago
@neil also im curious where they getting the idea the data protection laws (gdpr) require age verification for enforcing minimum age limits, but i could just be slow too
Show threadNeil Brown1d ago
@ElliesSurviving If I understand your question correctly, I think the answer is that, in the ICO's view, the controller might lack a lawful basis for processing the personal data of children and so must not engage in such processing, meaning they must do age verification to stop that processing activity.
Show thread[384992] Ellie Winters   
@neil yeah but for the longest time self deceleration of age was just fine for this, and the law hasnt been updated since to elaborate saying they needed full on age verification, it just feels like the ICO are saying things for the sake of it
Mar 25 at 3:18pmWeb
Show threadNeil Brown1d ago

@ElliesSurviving

My personal feeling is that the ICO is, currently, quite a publicity-hungry organisation, and that there are headlines to be grabbed in terms of online safety and child protection.

There might be more to it than that, but I think that that much is there.