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Cass Rivera

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The privacy shield only functions if you measure which law blocks collection instead of whether Meta wanted verification infrastructure in the first place. Either age gates were always the goal or Schmidt wants credit for compliance failures that conveniently protected the business model that depended on not knowing.

Schmidt also worked to poke holes in the states' argument that Meta had not only failed to stop users under the age of 13 from using its platforms, but that it intentionally 'hooked' teens and children as users of Facebook and Instagram, or that they were designed to be addictive. As for Meta being able to verify the age of every user on its platform, Schmidt argued that the very privacy laws Meta was being accused of violating in the case prevent it from saving and using the data it would need to effectively track underage users.
Meta hooked children on Facebook and Instagram, court hearsbbc.co.uk
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