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EU Waves Through Age-Check App to Keep Kids Safe Online
The open-source tool lets users prove age without sharing identity as France, Denmark and five other countries plan to integrate it.
- On Wednesday, April 29, 2026, The European Commission urged member states to adopt its new age-verification app to protect minors from harmful online content before the end of 2026.
- Designed for privacy, the blueprint allows users to prove age thresholds without revealing personal details, supporting the Digital Services Act's requirement for high-level minor safety online.
- France, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Spain, Cyprus, and Ireland plan to integrate the tool into national wallets; Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said, 'Online platforms can easily rely on our age verification app. So there are no more excuses.'
- Earlier on Wednesday, Facebook and Instagram were charged with breaching the Digital Services Act for failing to prevent children under the age of 13 from accessing their services.
- Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen described the open-source app as a 'piece of the puzzle' for online safety, which member states can integrate into a European Digital Identity Wallet by year's end.
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The Economic TimesEU urges fast rollout of age-verification app to protect minors online
The call followed the EU's announcement earlier this month that the app was ready, amid a broader push by member states to limit children's access to social media.
·India
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lacronicabadajoz.comThe European Commission has already ready its application to verify the age of Internet users. In an appearance, the Executive headed by Ursula Von der Leyen has presented this Wednesday a technological solution with which it intends to restrict access to social networks of minors in order to protect them from the dangers online.Continue reading....
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