Systemic Manipulation, Child Vulnerability, and the Regulatory Deficit in Ofcom’s Framework
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Systemic Manipulation, Child Vulnerability, and the Regulatory Deficit in Ofcom’s Framework
The first two concerns I have above are technical in nature. In other words, something happened to the system that it wasn’t designed for. A company got hacked. An attacker emulated a real user and got access to their DA without authorization.
But the one that’s even more scary is when that doesn’t happen, and things work exactly as they’re supposed
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