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consumer451yesterday at 11:33 PM1 replyview on HN

There is a way to do this, where nearly everyone is fine.[0]

However, the orgs don’t get to capture verified adult user identity to pad the value of their user data profiles…

[0] https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/around-the-gl...


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brian-armstrongyesterday at 11:38 PM

It seems unlikely that "is user adult" is not already easily modeled by any of these companies to within a very high degree of confidence. Even 15 or 20 years ago Google search could bracket your age pretty effectively. It doesn't seem like this adds metadata that wasn't already there.

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