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   James Baker (jamesbaker@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 21:13:55 JST James Baker

   • Neil Brown
   • Graham Smith

   @neil @cyberleagle Latest government amends to OSA and Data protection act in Children and School’s wellbeing bill ping pong https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/59-01/0414/amend/children_rm_cclm_0410.pdf

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 21:13:52 JST botvolution

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     • Neil Brown
     • Graham Smith

     @JamesBaker @neil @cyberleagle
     I remain convinced its part of a planned pathway to full "service with digital id only", where "service" is any state interaction, and probably internet access if all kinds.

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     James Baker (jamesbaker@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 21:13:54 JST James Baker

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     • Neil Brown
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     @neil @cyberleagle The power to create regulations around proving age at 13 for Information Society Services is very broad. I wonder if it will be used to suggest Government Digital ID. I’m not sure there is any small site exemption for ISS for GDPR as you get with OSA’s catergories of services and risk profiles. Using GDPR article 8 as a way to age gate everything seems a lot and not what the public debate is about.

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 21:28:30 JST botvolution

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     @JamesBaker @neil @cyberleagle

     Ugh

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     James Baker (jamesbaker@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 21:28:32 JST James Baker

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     • botvolution
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     @botvolution @neil @cyberleagle Their graphics department isn’t as good as the WEF but you get the idea still.

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     James Baker (jamesbaker@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Apr-2026 21:28:33 JST James Baker

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     • botvolution
     • Graham Smith

     @botvolution @neil @cyberleagle It says in the consultation “Making the digital ID available for those aged 13 and over could help address these inclusion concerns by being free for children to access and use. It could help services to accurately distinguish a child’s age or age group between 13-17 and thereby deliver more tailored and age-appropriate experiences” https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/making-public-services-work-for-you-with-your-digital-identity/making-public-services-work-for-you-with-your-digital-identity. This amend provides how they can do it