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Japan Plans Social Media Age Checks via Carrier Data Japan wants social media companies to work out how old their users are and one method floated in a new government proposal would tap the growing data that mobile carriers already hold on their customers. The draft enters public comment before being finalized this summer. Japan joins Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia, which already ban under-16s, plus France, Greece and Denmark. At the end of May, G7 ministers in Paris agreed seven principles calling for age assurance described as privacy-preserving. That label promises more than any age-checking design can deliver. A system that reliably confirms someone's age has to learn something true about that person, and the more reliable it gets, the more it knows. Article: https://reclaimthenet.org/japan-plans-social-media-age-checks-via-carrier-data

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