We have opened formal proceedings under the Digital Services Act to investigate how Snapchat exposes minors to grooming, recruitment for criminal purposes, and illegal products.
Key areas of investigation include:
🔹Grooming & recruitment of minors
🔹Age verification and access for under-13s
🔹Default privacy & safety settings
🔹Spread of illegal or age-restricted products
🔹Reporting of illegal content
We will now carry out an in-depth investigation.
More info: https://link.europa.eu/gXFbqm
What is missing here is: Parenting.
Parents neglecting their kids by giving them unfettered access to the internet.
We don't need governments to take away our privacy and our rights, because some people are shitty parents.
You decide to have kids, you take responsibility.
@EUCommission @hauntshade It is. If a parent gives phone to children at young age and let them do whatever they want without explaining the risks of being online, they failed as a parent.
Also, the "platforms are responsible to ensure users safety" is quite vaque.
I am all for holding tech platforms accountable, but i am against any form of age verification that requires submitting an ID. We already know how that ends. We have already seen it, again and again. Companies get hacked. Data gets breached. And suddenly your ID information is out there.
I also believe there should be a bigger focus on educating parents, putting more responsiblilty in their hands.
Anyone remember how to use “Parental Controls”?
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