The ICO has actively pushed for age verification measures in the UK at the expense of privacy.
This fails to address the repurposing of personal data from age checks for targeted online advertising.
In turn, advertising data is used to drive up engagement, exploit addictions and target harmful content.
#ico #dataprotection #privacy #gdpr #ukpolitics #ukpol
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2026-07-17 08:15:07 UTC
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