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Not necessarily, TikTok now delete accounts they believe to belong to children under 13. They could have chosen to do age authentication the British way but i suppose they had a big reason not to. Microsoft might understand they could lose business if they force users to prove they’re not children. It’s not like everybody would trust MS with such data.

Humanity is a corrupting force.

There is a reason we put locks on our doors and have insurance in case someone does break in. Sure this is an issue that needs to be addressed but it is one much smaller than getting the people in power to put things in motion. Once that happens (and we’re getting there) there will be funding and a public awareness campaign for sure, especially once the first politician gets hacked because they were using non-proprietary software because he wanted to kick Big Tech out…

Yeah my view of meta isn’t changed the slightest by this. The Dutch court ruled against Facebook last year and they had to make a change ‘before the end of the year’ to avoid being fined, they rolled out the update with the fix literally the last hour before midnight december 31st. If they can profit, they will. If the fine was low enough, they might just as well have decided to just (continue to) break the law and pay the fines.

WhatsApp introduced Third-Party Chats in Europe earlier this year. BirdyChat connects through this official DMA interface and does not use any workarounds. All communication between BirdyChat and WhatsApp users is end-to-end encrypted.

Nice