A safer internet starts with smarter age checks. We're rolling out our first prototype of an age verification app to help protect minors from harmful content online. It is designed to allow users to prove they’re over 18 before accessing restricted adult content, without revealing personal information or allowing anyone to track what they view. 🌍 The pilot phase kicks off with Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, and Spain, who will test and tailor the solution for a customised national age verification app. Making sure our children and young people are safe online is of paramount importance. europa.eu/!BKxcW3 #EuropeanUnion
The secrecy between proof-issuer and proof-requester seems solid, but is there a guarantee that data/ meta data is not collected by a governmental institution? For example; Age verification alone isn't interesting. The app says: 'Age verification' requested and given. But if the app send geolocation data, it becomes a very different matter. Then it's easy to know that someone can from a liquor store, or if the verification was at home ... And of course phones can collect tons of other data for apps to send too. Not saying that I suspect this will happen, but then again, we have been screwed over by the corpos a lot of times promising they would never ever ... so I'm sure we'd just all like some absolution on this. Otherwise really liking the thought that is going into this.
Geweldig! We have to protect are children! This could be a first forward …
Age verification addressed to protect our children from potentially harmful content without interfeering in people’s privacy rights is a major step forward in a proper internet usage.
European Commission why are you adding steps to something that is relatively simply fetched from the telecom operators themselves? There's no need for an app, this validation can be done via signaling directly from the phone to the corresponding telecom operator?
What about the pilot in Poland ? ❤️
Travail remarquable
We need to speed up progress and protect the society, specially the kids. Well done
Why in each and every important chart Europe is falling behind China and the United States, and only in stupid and not important things is Europe excellent? https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.CD?locations=CN-EU-US
Requirements Manager
1dGreat! Looking forward to big tech using this app to let people start registering for an account based on this. We would no longer need to let them have our personal data for "age verification".