#ageassessment — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ageassessment, aggregated by home.social.
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"...[F]irst, the Council’s position allows for “voluntary” detection, where tech platforms can scan personal messages that aren’t end-to-end encrypted. Unlike in the U.S., where there is no comprehensive federal privacy law, voluntary scanning is not technically legal in the EU, though it’s been possible through a derogation set to expire in 2026. It is unclear how this will play out over time, though we are concerned that this approach to voluntary scanning will lead to private mass-scanning of non-encrypted services and might limit the sorts of secure communication and storage services big providers offer. With limited transparency and oversight, it will be difficult to know how services approach this sort of detection.
With mandatory detection orders being off the table, the Council has embraced another worrying system to protect children online: risk mitigation. Providers will have to take “all reasonable mitigation measures” to reduce risks on their services. This includes age verification and age assessment measures. We have written about the perils of age verification schemes and recent developments in the EU, where regulators are increasingly focusing on AV to reduce online harms."
#EU #ChatControl #Surveillance #AgeVerification #AgeAssessment #Privacy #Encryption
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In the footsteps of Darboe and Camara - Age assessment of unaccompanied minors in A.C. v. France: between procedure and protection
On 16 January 2025, the European Court of Human Rights issued another judgment, #AC v France, on #ageassessment procedures for unaccompanied minors and held that there was a violation of Article 8 ECHR. The Court emphasises the importance of procedural safeguards, reaffirming some of the findings established in #Darboe and Camara
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In the footsteps of Darboe and Camara - Age assessment of unaccompanied minors in A.C. v. France: between procedure and protection
On 16 January 2025, the European Court of Human Rights issued another judgment, #AC v France, on #ageassessment procedures for unaccompanied minors and held that there was a violation of Article 8 ECHR. The Court emphasises the importance of procedural safeguards, reaffirming some of the findings established in #Darboe and Camara
#ECHR