Meta’s victory on children is even bigger and uglier than I said

Twelve days ago, 29 US started a child privacy trial against Meta. Almost immediately, I pointed out that those states were making some requests wrong, and had completely forgotten what they should have really demanded. Right after the lawsuit was settled at warp speed after just one week, I pointed out that the settlement wasn’t a defeat, but a huge victory for Meta.“The Code That No Parliament Voted” - Screenshot of the original version of this post.The morning after that post, I found a comment of the same settlement in the Italian “Ius ex Machina” newsletter, written by Professor Michele Iaselli, who is a lawyer and teacher specialized in digital privacy matters. Since that post explains much better than I could where, how and why exactly that settlement is a bad, dangerous piece of legislation for everybody, in and outside the US, I translated and republished it here, with Prof. Iaselli’s permission of course.DISCLAIMER: As we say on the Internet, IANAL - I Am Not A Lawyer. Any…