Post #493193
2026-03-02 14:15 UTC
The only input should be birth year of the child whose account is being set up. No other personally identifiable info should be included.
Found a bug. You’re trying to reduce the information, but you can’t extrapolate someone’s age from their year of birth. You need the full date to compare with the current date. Storing someone’s full DOB is obviously more PII but it’s essential.
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@Ltcpanic@lemmy.world 2026-03-02 15:49
From a policy perspective, one compromise is building in this kind of ambiguity, for privacy sake. When policy specifies 13 years+1, the tradeoff is a max of +364 days in the worst case: someone who we know is born in 2015, is def 13 in 2029
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@mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-02 16:11
That is intentional. It provides a reasonable approximation of age while maintaining privacy. The big gaping hole someone pointed out to me is who gets to determine what is blocked? I don’t have a great answer for that. I imagine it would be the type of thing settled in courts. Personally, my biggest concerns are social media and access to AI. I think those two things are more harmful to the development of young minds and their mental wellbeing than anything NSFW.