A safer internet starts with smarter age checks.
Today, we're rolling out our first prototype of an age verification app to protect minors:
📱 Online platforms will be able to use it to protect our children from harmful and illegal content.
🚸Young people will be able to verify their age without revealing any other info, such as their identity.
🌍 The pilot phase kicks off with 🇩🇰🇫🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸
Making sure our children and young people are safe online is our duty.
@EUCommission delegating the check to a site is a dumb decision that made possible scams.
If you want to realise an age verification easy and Safe, you can use something like Italian Spid. People visiting a e.g. porn site must authenticate with a spid provider. Once authenticated, the provider will pass a token to the site which authorize the user to access it
@migbox @EUCommission As I understand it, the site does not do age checking in this proposal. It just accepts a proof that a check was done by some third party.
