US EditionEU to Launch Age-Check App as Pressure Builds on Big Tech
- The European Union will launch an age verification app in July 2025 to enhance online protection for minors across member states.
- This initiative follows growing concerns about kids’ safety online, legal gaps in age-verification, and investigations into addictive platform designs by companies like Meta and TikTok.
- The EU app will allow users to prove their age without sharing personal data, aiming to enforce existing rules on sites serving minors or harmful content more effectively.
- Henna Virkkunen, the EU’s technology commissioner, emphasized the high importance of safeguarding children online and called on the industry to implement strong voluntary protections before government regulations are introduced.
- This age-check app could enable the EU to impose tougher oversight and fines if platforms fail to reduce risks, reflecting a shift toward stronger digital child safety enforcement.
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Will Louisiana require age verification on apps? A bill stirs debate with Google, Meta.
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The aim is to “give parents an effective tool to combat minors’ access to pornographic content and to freely decide what online content their children can access.”
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The application will be introduced in July this year.
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