Oct 13, 2026, 7:06 PM@erikarn @aparrish @sprawlbug yes please
- Oct 13, 2026, 7:06 PM
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Bee Sprawlbugsprawlbug@mastodon.socialOct 13, 2026, 8:11 PMfor me my relevant experience comes from time as a programmer on child-directed mobile games (where the EU's policies regarding PII are a daily concern)
Most commercial videogames collect analytics data, and mobile games often collect an ocean of it. Currently it's considered legal (arguably!) to store certain info forever, e.g.: how many times a given user has opened the app... but only as long as the IDs used for storage do not 'personally identify' the user
- Bee Sprawlbugsprawlbug@mastodon.socialOct 13, 2026, 8:14 PM
the result is a bit of a complicated dance with certain gray areas! You definitely 100% are not supposed to store e.g.: the Google Advertising ID of a child without getting exactly the proper sort of parental consent...
...but that said, is it still possible for an ad company to take a bunch of secondary 'non-identifying' info and use it to figure out who a person is? Yeah, & they do
I like these policies and want them to be stronger, so I'm sensitive to their gaps