L’app europea per la verifica dell’età è pronta mentre l’Europa si muove per limitare l’accesso dei bambini ai social media
https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-age-verification-app-ready-europe-moves-curb-childrens-social-media-access-2026-04-15/
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hell nah
The first step towards total stop of online anonymity
How is this even allowed to be happening? Why are these people not getting consequences for suggesting, approving, this?
The European Union which used to protect our data, privacy, rights, now does this?
I’m curious to find out what tf is happening.
Oh yeah, brilliant strategy, nothing protects kids like making mainstream platforms stricter
so they’ll definitely not find the least moderated corners of the internet instead.
Because if there’s one thing teenagers are known for, it’s respecting barriers and not immediately seeking out something else.
this is the wet dream of every opressive regime.
Reuters link is kinda useless as it does not have any relevant info.
Here’s full article [https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/da/statement_26_817](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/da/statement_26_817)
AND imo the important part:
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First, it is user-friendly. You download the app. You set it up with your passport or ID card. You then prove your age when accessing online services. Second, it respects the highest privacy standards in the world. Users will prove their age without revealing any other personal information. Put simply, it is completely anonymous: users cannot be tracked. Third, the app works on any device – phone, tablet, computer, you name it. And, finally, it is fully open source – everyone can check the code
So in essence you have a token that says “im X years old, this is crypto signature that certifies it”, it does not say who you are.
Actually this might be a sane thing to attempt when you put away the knee jerk reaction that we all have from chat control bullshit.
I think this is an amazing endeavour.
The second step is to, of course for children’s protection, ban all apps with encryption and tell people to use the perfectly anonymous EUChat that will be integrated into said app.
Anyone who opposes this is, of course, wanting to endanger children.
(obviously /s)
Crazy how the EU both have gdpr, and right to be forgotten also have this insane idea that contradicts those two ideas of protecting online identities and anonymity…
Just stop. Research are eve coming out now that social media isn’t the issue anyway.
Lucky mine is an idiot who has no idea how to pass age verification. 😂
the retardation runs deep
We all know this is only being done because politicians think that the only reason young people don’t vote for centrist parties is because social media exists.
They would prefer to forbid it from existing, but it would mess with adult voters who would then vote for other parties.
Instead of limiting the anti social media.
I just saw some youngsters smoking cigarettes in the bushes. I hope EU can use this app to protect young people from negative results of smoking.
Tor will be the new standard if they continue to that path.
Oh yeah brilliant, Orwellian surveillance how nice.
Mass surveillance spreads. They want our ID tied to our online presence to discourage us from free speech on social media. They don’t want us going against the narrative.
All these countries implementing this at the same time is no coincidence.
They’re afraid of us.
In other news, META ready to stalk children even further
step by step
Remember, it is to protect “the children” and not to monitor you. All is fully anonymous, secret, perfect and magical.
VPN?
final decision on potential EU legislation will be made once a special panel on child safety online files its recommendations this summer, the senior Commission official said.
I have a feeling that I already know what is going to be the conclusion of that “special panel”. The only question I have, is how much money have been wasted on these commissioned results.
I dislike it too but this is OBJECTIVELY the best case scenario out of ALL, read this because we need to be objectively truthful.
What the US, England, australia did was ”ok website, you will need to age verify your users, we DO NOT CARE HOW YOU DO IT, JUST DO IT OR WE BLOCK THE WEBSITE”
Of course websites and companies went panic mode and randomly choose an age verification process that would leak/keep your data and this results in data leak.
This WILL NOT HAPPEN in EU [https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/da/statement_26_817](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/da/statement_26_817)
What you will do is: website asks for your age, you give the OK through the app/wallet, the wallet generates an adult yes/no token LOCALLY INSIDE YOUR PHONE, IT’S ALL OFFLINE, BOTH THE VALIDATION AND REVOCATION TOKENS will be INSIDE your phones, NOTHING WILL BE STORED IN SERVERS and the website will receive that yes/no token.
The only thing servers will store is created account is an adult/minor. That’s it.
Why fix the problem (the algorithm) when you can treat the symptoms and create a ton of shareholder value?
I would like a social media restrictions law for politicians instead
So what’s to stop any teen from approaching a random adult and asking them to verify their account?
why do i have to use a shit ass app because of someone elses children? I rather dont use social media.
this is beyond stupid
1984
my vpn is always on :p
These news agencies are making themselves part of a propaganda campaign by describing this as a ban for children. It’s not, it’s a ban for everyone. Basically everything you’ve now, and ever, used the internet for will be locked behind a government “Identify yourself” barrier.
Not just facebook and instagram, but even sites like youtube and reddit are described as “social media” and you’ll lose access to them unless you agree to let the government interfere in your browsing, and give you “permission” to access the sites you want.
Why has nobody stopped these pricks yet? There should be massive “hands off our internet” protests
It’s going to be epic and chungus for the people supporting the ones that are implementing this.
We’ll get even more extreme echo chambers.
Authoritarian surveillance, wrongthink will be made illegal soon.
And they don’t see such a ban hasn’t worked in Australia at all.
Black Mirror could have some real fun with this for an episode in the upcoming season
Mass surveillance and wrong think punishments incoming
>A senior Commission official acknowledged that the EU’s age verification system can be bypassed by using a VPN but said the initiative was not aimed at policing people online.
So essentially they are knowingly boosting sales for VPNs.