FTC will not enforce COPPA on data collected to verify user's ages

The irony. COPPA is an ageist 1998 law that set the precedent for these considerably worse 2020s laws that require age verifications.

And since those age verifications themselves violate COPPA, the FTC won't enforce COPPA on companies doing age verifications. Wonderful. As soon as COPPA could have been used for something useful like stopping age verifications, well, that's when they decline to enforce COPPA.

https://www.theverge.com/policy/885592/ftc-age-verification-childrens-online-privacy-enforcement