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Comment on Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine

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.

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Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Thanks for sharing. I should push back on your statement a little.

The investigation relates to how MediaLab’s Imgur social media platform uses children’s information and its approach to age assurance.

And in the Children’s code strategy progress update mentioned.

One platform has committed to introduce age assurance methods, to help ensure that children have an age-appropriate online experience.

To comply with child data protection rules, you necessarily have to either:

Know that they are a child by checking their age

Not collect information on anyone

It does look like the focus is mostly on data collection, not content moderation, so I will concede on that point. I should have read a bit more into this before commenting.
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- FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s true, but the age assurance they’re talking about here seems much lighter than the age verification mandated by the OSA. This page has information from the ICO on this - searching through for “age assurance” it seems clear to me that the ICO is talking about either taking an age field on account creation, or on using some other algorithmic means to estimate users’ ages.
  
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