• NebLem@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Lazy question as I haven’t followed the DSA closely and Wikipedia seems very surface level - does it do stupid privacy invasive crap and forget small sites exist like the UK’s Online Safety Act?

    • Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de
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      16 hours ago

      The Wikipedia page doesn’t sound too bad, but IANAL.
      The regulation linked from the wiki article only includes the word “age” three times and actually states:

      […] this prohibition should not lead the provider of the online platform to maintain, acquire or process more personal data than it already has in order to assess if the recipient of the service is a minor. Thus, this obligation should not incentivize providers of online platforms to collect the age of the recipient of the service prior to their use.

      Haven’t looked at it any more than that, but it sounds like it’s already been in effect for ~2 years?