Meta’s $18 billion settlement bets on AI to tell which users are kids, raising new privacy questions for kids and adults alike
Reported by Fortune · fortune.com · September 1, 2026
Certain digital rights groups are concerned with "age-gating," and says the data collected to determine information like age can be "leaked, hacked, or misused."
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