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That is a very dishonest way of framing these laws. Parental control does not need violating the privacy of every computer user.

Also sharing the user's personal information does not prevent gambling or protect children, it does the opposite.

These laws don't violate the privacy of every computer user. They say that a parent shall be able to mark a child's account as being under 18, and apps shall respect that.

Assuming apps for which this is relevant respect users and specifically children in this day and age sounds naive. It's another free datapoint to collect, in the best case for targeted ads.

Meta seems to be behind a lot of lobbying for this and they're the kind of company who does nonconsensual psychological experiments on their users: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...

if they don't they'll be fined.

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