EU chief calls for a bloc-wide push on an age verification app to protect children online. If enforced, users will have to prove their age to access legally restricted sites.
You can launch an app all you want, but I don’t use my phone… It’s likely not compatible with whatever app they present anyway… So now I have to buy a new phone every idk, 3 years or so to do a bit of ranting here and there?
But that’s somehow a “me” problem. So let’s mention another issue for "app-stuff:
For a European to be able to use Social media, I first have to agree with all kinds of American TOS’s : (Apple, Google, or whatever semi-alternative that requires a Google app-store).
Basically making our GDPR subordinate to the US.
IPhones get software updates for 5-7 years and high end Androids from some manufacturers are also finally catching up to this. Plus the app may not always require the absolute newest version of the OS. Might get 7-8 years out of a brand new high end phone.
Still doesn’t change the fact that now you HAVE to have an Android or iOS device and I’m betting they’ll use play integrity too.
You can launch an app all you want, but I don’t use my phone… It’s likely not compatible with whatever app they present anyway… So now I have to buy a new phone every idk, 3 years or so to do a bit of ranting here and there?
But that’s somehow a “me” problem. So let’s mention another issue for "app-stuff:
For a European to be able to use Social media, I first have to agree with all kinds of American TOS’s : (Apple, Google, or whatever semi-alternative that requires a Google app-store). Basically making our GDPR subordinate to the US.
IPhones get software updates for 5-7 years and high end Androids from some manufacturers are also finally catching up to this. Plus the app may not always require the absolute newest version of the OS. Might get 7-8 years out of a brand new high end phone.
Still doesn’t change the fact that now you HAVE to have an Android or iOS device and I’m betting they’ll use play integrity too.
Im fairly certain this is true everywhere, but your local laws should supercede any TOS.
GDPR is slowly growing more and more irrelevant as they amp up the “Legitimate Interest” loopholes on every website anyway.
They’ve already found entirely new ways to violate user consent and claim it as legal.