US EditionCapitals Cool on Brussels Age-Check App
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Capitals cool on Brussels age-check app
BRUSSELS — National capitals are skeptical and even downright dismissive of a new application created by the European Commission to check the age of internet users, government ministers and officials told POLITICO. The EU executive on Wednesday will recommend that countries use an app it designed to protect kids from online harms, as governments roll out age checks for illegal content such as pornography, alcohol — and, likely soon, social medi…
EU Rolls-Out “Sort of” Digital Identity Card
The interoperable app that they want “every citizen to use” is officially ready for use! The EU is rolling out its official age verification app according to the joint statement issued by EU President Ursula von der Leyen and Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen [emphasis added]: It is our duty to protect our children in the online world, just as we do in the offline world. And to do that effectively, we need a harmonised European approach.…
The (promptly hacked) age verification app undermines anonymity on the Internet: an EU MP already warns that people with this "Youth Protection Trojan" are to be used to using Internet services only with a government app. Where at the beginning "only age is transmitted", the digital ID could quickly be forced to reveal the entire identity. A feast for overcrowding governments, data-hungry companies and criminals... The following article is a mul…
EU launches app to verify age of online users. Photo: Depositphotos Governments of European Union countries are in no hurry to implement the European Commission's new app to verify the age of online users. Some states are skeptical about it or prefer their own solutions. This is reported by "European Truth" with reference to Politico. As the publication notes, the European Commission plans to recommend the use of this app to protect children onl…
Brussels prepares the deployment of an age verification app to enable Internet users to prove their majority without systematically communicating their full identity. Presented as a compromise between the protection of minors, respect for privacy and freedom...
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