State attorney general notices his kid's social media app is giving algorithmic instead of chronological results, subpoenas social networks for number of under-18s in Minnesota, files charges, court sets up enormous fine.
Which part of this process is impossible?
Stopping that would mean a KYC process for every social media signup. I don't think that works either.
> (b) The social media platform is liable to an individual account holder who received user-generated content through a social media algorithm while the individual account holder was under the age of 18 and was using the individual account holder’s own account, if the social media platform knew or had reason to know that the individual account holder was under the age of 18 and located in Minnesota. [...]
Sounds like they're not requiring unreasonable knowledge of faked ages.
If so that implies social network will have to scan every video for the age range of participants.
I'm sure there are plenty enough kids who accurately represented their age between 13-18 to make this quite enforceable. I probably said I was 13 when I was 12, or something close enough.
Do a PSA campaign telling parents to make sure their kids' social media apps correctly represent their age to keep them safe. Would work well enough.
Well, you might have been a precocious 2-year old Microsoft fan in 2012. So, depending on your timezone, you should be in bed young man! And what do you think you were doing on HN at the young age of 1?
(or, well, not showing results to anyone)
I'm much less concerned about the issue of identifying kids (if they can't identify kids, all the better, adults get to benefit too) than that they're probably accidentally banning whole categories of useful things like rolling your own search engine.
I actually enjoyed seeing what my friends were up to on Facebook until they moved to this algorithmic timeline and it started showing only what they think I'd want to see.
Unfortunately it invariably thinks I want more of the same and that's exactly not what I want.
But I've closed all my accounts and don't think I'll ever go back anyway.
As an example, I work for a European company whose product tracks people in an indoor space, as a byproduct of its main function.
Our (German) CEO made it clear we were constrained in our product development by GDPR's stipulations around pseudonymous data and data retention.