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Europe Gets Serious About Age Verification Online
- EU accelerates age-verification reforms under the Digital Services Act, with formal probes of major sites for minor access.
- The mini-wallet would prove age via cryptographic tokens without revealing birth details to sites.
- The EU envisions future Digital Identity Wallets, integrating age verification with broader attributes like identity and licenses.
- France and Denmark are ahead on the rollout, while Greece, Spain, and Italy lag behind in the EU’s timeline.
- Yoti and Persona are among players in the European age-verification market, with varying data practices.
- Critics warn that the mini-wallet may not stop bypasses like minors using an adult’s credentials.
- Brussels aims for an open-source architecture to allow national or derivative implementations.
- The effort is a step toward an infrastructure that balances privacy with child protection.
- Minor bypass risks aside, the mini-wallet is viewed as the most promising solution so far.
- Pornhub is already involved in the pilot phase of the EU age-verification initiative.
- EU officials emphasize a multi-solution approach if alternate methods are equally effective.
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