AADC Compliance – Protecting Young Users in Line with EU Privacy Law

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Served as the lead engineer responsible for bringing our product into compliance with the EU’s newly introduced Age Appropriate Design Code (AADC)—a regulation prohibiting most forms of data collection from users under a certain age. The project was high urgency, with significant legal and financial implications for non-compliance. I implemented age detection logic and built conditional UX flows that dynamically adjusted the interface based on user age group—proactively hiding or disabling features that involved data sharing or personalization. In parallel, I led a comprehensive refactor of our telemetry systems across both Windows and Android codebases to ensure no data was collected for users flagged as underage. This work was delivered on an accelerated timeline to meet legal deadlines, and successfully safeguarded Microsoft from noncompliance penalties while reinforcing our commitment to responsible data handling and child safety.