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3️⃣ The US Federal Trade Commission said it will not enforce penalties under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which regulates how websites, apps, and online services collect and use children’s personal data, against companies that use age-verification technologies, provided the data collected is used only to confirm a user’s age, not retained afterward, and protected with appropriate safeguards. https://therecord.media/ftc-says-it-wont-enforce-coppa-age-verification

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2️⃣ An open letter signed by 371 security and privacy researchers across 30 countries calls for a moratorium on rolling out age assurance online, arguing that current proposals are easy to circumvent, technically hard to deploy at internet scale, and likely to create major harms. https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/ageverif-Feb2026

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1️⃣ Debates over banning social media for under-16s should look to the early internet: platforms like Club Penguin and Neopets offered child-focused digital spaces with pseudonymity, creativity, and built-in safety features that today’s algorithm-driven social media lacks, writes argues Ella Harvey. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bring-back-club-penguin-what-early-internet-tells-us-future-harvey-wxkse

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