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Legal and technical requirements for establishing users' ages, including document checks, facial age estimation, and device- or app-store-level age signals.
Self-attested birthdays are out for adults as well as teens, and Techdirt reads the deal as obliging Meta to collect and keep more data on the teenagers it is meant to protect. That is an odd shape for a privacy remedy.
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Anyone building on consumer ChatGPT accounts now carries an unread variable in output behaviour, set by a classifier's opinion about how old the account holder is.
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France's court blocked Macron's ban and advocates who wrote the earlier bills now warn against blanket blocks. What survives is age assurance plus per-surface duties.
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ChatGPT for Teens routes users by a classifier's guess, not a signup choice. OpenAI has not published how often that guess misses a minor, and outside experts say it misses plenty.
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The Constitutional Council accepted the goal and rejected the method. Teams scoping age assurance are building to a mandate with no defined technical standard and no settled shape.
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The Constitutional Council struck Article 1 two weeks before enforcement, and one of its two grounds was that the law offered no privacy guarantees for age verification.
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