James Baker
The ICO issued a joint statement on ‘age assurance’ aka privacy invading digital ID. Their odd position is now people must go through privacy invading procedures to ‘protect their data’ and to be sure users are > 13 years old. This likely why Apple are saying U.K. law requires age assurance stuff. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2026/03/joint-statement-from-ico-and-ofcom-on-age-assurance/ #AgeGate #apple #ICO #UK
Joint statement from ICO and Ofcom on age assurance

We have published a joint statement with Ofcom about the main areas of interaction between online safety and data protection as they relate to age assurance.

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Show threadThe Vampire Fish Queen12h ago
@JamesBaker Tho others have point out Apple does not need to do this seeing they are not covered by the OSA, some are already talking about how legal this is under the UK GDPR and other laws?