• Armand1@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    The title is a little bit misleading, it’s mostly about Imgur not adding the age checking that the UK’s infamously disliked new law requires on possibly mature content.

    Age verification is a notoriously difficult problem to solve in a privacy-respecting way, and Imgur is literally about unobtrusive image embeds so I doubt they could even make this work.

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      6 days ago

      Age verification is a notoriously difficult problem

      It’s not a problem at all, though. Parents should be verifying what programs their kids use.

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      8 days ago

      The title is completely in line with the known facts. This is the ICO statement which does not mention anything about age checking.

      There has been widespread speculation that this is related to age-verification but so far I’ve seen no evidence of this, and the fact that the investigation started in March makes it seem unlikely.