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  1. I finally sat down and read the actual legal text of the #UAE Cabinet Resolution No. (106) of 2026, which sets a minimum age of 15 for social media use and regulates children's access to these platforms — not just the summary graphics circulating online. It has more structural issues than the public messaging suggests. A few things stood out that didn't make it into the summaries: Scope is jurisdictional, not residency-based. The resolution applies to any platform "available within the State or directed at users therein." That means a tourist's child logging into their existing #account from a UAE hotel room falls under this. Enforcement has no practical way to distinguish a resident from a #visitor — it's IP-based by necessity. Self-declared age is explicitly banned. The text is direct: self-declaration "shall not be recognized." Platforms must use government digital ID, biometric age-estimation AI, or a licensed local verification provider. That's full identity verification infrastructure for every user, not a checkbox. #Parents can't legally help. Caregivers are now obligated to avoid circumventing verification or providing false information to get a child onto a platform — even with good intentions, even for supervised access. The resolution removes discretion that used to sit with the family. No #educational carve-out. The definition of "Social Media Platform" is broad: anything enabling profiles, social interaction, content sharing, or algorithmic content ranking. There's no exemption for #Google Workspace for Education, Microsoft Teams, or #school #WhatsApp groups — all of which technically qualify. The verification standards themselves (Article 4) are actually well-written — data minimization, audit rights, no unjustified exclusion. The infrastructure requirement is thoughtful. What's missing is the follow-through: platforms are told to build accurate, privacy-respecting age verification, and then told to use it to lock kids out entirely instead of using the same system to give them a properly restricted, supervised experience. We built the lock. We just used it on the wrong door. Full text here: https://uaelegislation.gov.ae/en/legislations/4506 #legal #act #social #socialmedia #children #tourism #travel #id #microsoft #meta #instagram #tiktok #platform #ai #privacy
  2. I finally sat down and read the actual legal text of the #UAE Cabinet Resolution No. (106) of 2026, which sets a minimum age of 15 for social media use and regulates children's access to these platforms — not just the summary graphics circulating online. It has more structural issues than the public messaging suggests. A few things stood out that didn't make it into the summaries: Scope is jurisdictional, not residency-based. The resolution applies to any platform "available within the State or directed at users therein." That means a tourist's child logging into their existing #account from a UAE hotel room falls under this. Enforcement has no practical way to distinguish a resident from a #visitor — it's IP-based by necessity. Self-declared age is explicitly banned. The text is direct: self-declaration "shall not be recognized." Platforms must use government digital ID, biometric age-estimation AI, or a licensed local verification provider. That's full identity verification infrastructure for every user, not a checkbox. #Parents can't legally help. Caregivers are now obligated to avoid circumventing verification or providing false information to get a child onto a platform — even with good intentions, even for supervised access. The resolution removes discretion that used to sit with the family. No #educational carve-out. The definition of "Social Media Platform" is broad: anything enabling profiles, social interaction, content sharing, or algorithmic content ranking. There's no exemption for #Google Workspace for Education, Microsoft Teams, or #school #WhatsApp groups — all of which technically qualify. The verification standards themselves (Article 4) are actually well-written — data minimization, audit rights, no unjustified exclusion. The infrastructure requirement is thoughtful. What's missing is the follow-through: platforms are told to build accurate, privacy-respecting age verification, and then told to use it to lock kids out entirely instead of using the same system to give them a properly restricted, supervised experience. We built the lock. We just used it on the wrong door. Full text here: https://uaelegislation.gov.ae/en/legislations/4506 #legal #act #social #socialmedia #children #tourism #travel #id #microsoft #meta #instagram #tiktok #platform #ai #privacy
  3. Heat is now shutting NHS theatres and breaking vital scanners — a stark warning about an AGEING estate struggling in extreme temperatures.
    Report by @zoetidman.bsky.social and @alijanemoore.bsky.social, via @hsj.co.uk.
    #Patient-safety #Staff-safety #Visitor-safety

    hsj.co.uk/patient-safety/heatw

  4. Heat is now shutting NHS theatres and breaking vital scanners — a stark warning about an AGEING estate struggling in extreme temperatures.
    Report by @zoetidman.bsky.social and @alijanemoore.bsky.social, via @hsj.co.uk.
    #Patient-safety #Staff-safety #Visitor-safety

    hsj.co.uk/patient-safety/heatw

  5. Websites have a new way to #spy on visitors: #analyzing their #SSD activity

    source: arstechnica.com/security/2026/…

    The #attack that #FROST uses is known as a contention side channel, which measures the interaction of various processes all using (or competing for) a given resource. By measuring the timing of certain I/O (input-output) operations of the SSD a #visitor is using, the researchers were able to determine the #websites open in other tabs—even on other browsers—and the apps that were open on the visitor’s device. FROST requires no interaction from the visitor other than opening the site hosting the attack.

    #news #web #www #browser #hardware #software #sidechannel #tracking #surveillance #privacy #internet #online #security #problem #computer #surfing #hack #hacker #software #cybersecurity

  6. An excellent synopsis of #Hawaii #Visitor #Tourism efforts. We kinda have to own the expectations and behavior of tourists who throw rocks at #endangered monk seals.

    beatofhawaii.com/hawaii-wanted

  7. An excellent synopsis of #Hawaii #Visitor #Tourism efforts. We kinda have to own the expectations and behavior of tourists who throw rocks at #endangered monk seals.

    beatofhawaii.com/hawaii-wanted

  8. Cincinnati’s tourism industry highlighted as city eyes NFL draft hosting opportunity

    Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky tourism leaders are celebrating local businesses during National Travel and Tourism Week while the…
    #nfl #nfldraft #NFLDraft #Cincinnati #CincinnatiBengals #city #Event #Football #huffman #jadecolwell #localbusiness #meetnky #NFL #Ohio #Partnership #patrickdye #Restaurant #SuperBowl #tourism #visitcincy #visitor #year
    rawchili.com/nfl/882622/

  9. alojapan.com/1481110/her-plan- Her Plan Was to Travel the World Until She Discovered Rural Japan #BusinessIdea #BusinessManagerVisa #college #country #HolidayVisa #itinerary #JapanTravel #life #People #Requirement #RuralJapan #RuralTown #time #travel #visitor #work #year This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kira Bella, 25, the CEO of Kirameki, an experiential travel company in Japan. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… After g

  10. This week in space news: Artemis II next steps and a mysterious interstellar visitor
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>NPR&#039;s Scott Detrow talks with Regina Barber and Nell Greenfieldboyce about the Artemis moon missions
    #interstellar #mysterious #artemis #visitor

  11. The hotel an accident of geometry in the landscape—
    a square laid into in an unbroken horizon,
    its hallways aligned to catch the sun’s arrival.
    Each morning, light performed its slow undoing of the dark.
    I tried to hold each moment, naming
    each frame by date and minute, as if
    sequence could be sent, intact, to another life.

    #MastoPrompt
    #visitor
    #smallstory
    #smallpoems
    @stevencudahy

  12. I may be a curmudgeonly old Hermit, but I still make time to go to Milroy and have a cup of coffee with my best girl once a week. #coffee #coffeemorning #coffeevisit #dog #dogs #canine #canines #furbaby #furbabies #milroy #visit #visitor #visiting #friends #friendship #hermit

  13. 9 yr old Arabian mare looking for a stallion that knows how to treat a girl right.

    Enjoys sushi, hot tubs and romantic walks to the haystack.

    Bay stallions need not apply. We know how you behave.

    🤣🤣🤣

    #HorsesOfMastodon #Visitor #NewDate