Here’s how and who cares about TikTok rules and controls
I'll explain what really happens with TikTok, other than controls and new rules… The article by Umberto Rapetto, director of Infosec.news
There are many children under 13 who – despite the age limit set by the social platform – had opened a TikTok account by putting any date of birth in order to bypass the control (and you know what control) set up to limit access to who did not have the necessary personal data requirement.
The genius of the experts of that context has decided to block the "crafty" from today. As? Simple, by asking them – at today's opening of the application on their smartphone or of the website with the computer – to re-enter the day of birth indicated at the time of their adhesion to the much discussed telematic context idolized by the youngest.
This system is intended to eliminate those who have placed a random day, month and year as long as they are suitable for successfully completing the registration phase. Since most of the young users will not remember that date, many accounts will be deleted to the delight of parents, relatives, teachers and institutions.
The 9th of February 2021 is therefore destined to be “albo signanda lapillo”, to be marked with white chalk as the ancient Romans said. To be more precise, that "is" must be mercilessly replaced with a more sober "would be", because the technicians have not come to terms with "the little rascals" who (even without degrees, masters and life experiences) have undergone imagined how to mock TikTok and the fateful "check" that would (here the conditional is a must) satisfied the sacrosanct claims of the Privacy Guarantor .
We talk about it after the fact, because – it is all too obvious – we certainly cannot cheer on the very little ones who make fun of the "big ones". We tell the story when Valeria's trick can no longer be repeated, but we feel the duty to draw everyone's attention because the problem is serious, much more serious than one might imagine.
Yesterday, on the eve of the virtual caudine forks, the sixth grade "student" "confessed" to her father how to solve the age limit issue by taking advantage of the last day of free access to TikTok: registering a new account with a "tarot date" ”, Easy to write down or simply to remember until tomorrow morning when you will be asked to make your profile on the platform“ immortal ”.
On YouTube, Valeria's confession, defined by the lively father as "diabolical", must give food for thought to those who are required to do their best to protect minors struggling with the future whose access door is perhaps too small to let in. the adults.
Instead of creating yet another taskforce of friends of friends, perhaps you should get a couple of tips from Valeria or some of her friends.
Article published on infosec.news
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/ecco-come-e-chi-frega-regole-e-controlli-di-tiktok/ on Wed, 10 Feb 2021 09:07:52 +0000.