{"id":71099,"date":"2026-04-29T12:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/71099\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:23:13","slug":"brussels-tells-eu-countries-to-use-its-age-check-app-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/71099\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels tells EU countries to use its age-check app \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European countries are looking for technical tools to check people\u2019s age online, with many capitals moving toward restricting children&#8217;s access to social media over mental health concerns. The Commission is pushing for countries to use the solution it has developed so that the EU takes a unified approach.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission on April 15 <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/216645\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> its age verification app was \u201ctechnically ready\u201d but independent experts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/216808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found<\/a>\u00a0it was affected by security and privacy flaws. The Commission has brushed off the claims of security vulnerabilities, saying the app was only a demonstration version and that the code would continue to be updated.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials from eight member countries <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/217354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told POLITICO<\/a> they are unsure or unwilling to adopt the EU app, with many saying they preferred their own national solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The EU&#8217;s message to capitals comes in the form of a <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu\/en\/library\/commission-sets-out-common-approach-eu-wide-age-verification-technologies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Commission recommendation<\/a>, formally approved this week, that suggests countries should roll out the age verification app as a standalone application or as part of a planned EU-wide digital ID that is being developed in the longer term.<\/p>\n<p>Virkkunen said the Commission will also publish a list of age verification solutions &#8220;that meet our high privacy and security standards&#8221; and will set up an Age Verification Scheme &#8220;with requirements for people providing proof of age and age verification solutions to meet.&#8221; The list will include both public and private providers of age verification solutions, Virkkunen said.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate announcement, the Commission warned Meta on Wednesday that the company is not doing enough to keep kids under 13 off Instagram and Facebook \u2014 telling the company <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/217484\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">earlier Wednesday<\/a> that it must change the design of the platforms or face a fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European countries are looking for technical tools to check people\u2019s age online, with many capitals moving toward restricting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,2611,210,3585,3499,3500,38654,1443,9015,2433,1445,4843,2276,1446,26319],"class_list":{"0":"post-71099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-big-tech","10":"tag-brussels","11":"tag-content-moderation","12":"tag-cybersecurity","13":"tag-data-protection","14":"tag-digital-id","15":"tag-digital-services-act","16":"tag-henna-virkkunen","17":"tag-media","18":"tag-platforms","19":"tag-privacy","20":"tag-security","21":"tag-social-media","22":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116487979693518109","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}