Regulators are cracking down on platforms, design flaws and age verification — but bypassable tech, privacy risks and absent parental accountability are quietly undermining the whole effort.

The EU has left the door open to age-estimation by behavioural profiling, and the EU's own data protection authorities have warned that this can be more intrusive than the…

Regulators are cracking down on platforms, design flaws and age verification — but bypassable tech, privacy risks and absent parental accountability are quietly undermining the…