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Auch finanzstarke Bundesländer erhalten im Zuge des Gesetzes mehr Mittel. Den Gesetzentwurf hat heute das Kabinett beschlossen.
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Merz braucht ein Kabinettsmitglied, das noch unbeliebter ist als er.
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Amokläufe an Schulen sind in der Türkei selten. Nun gab es an gleich zwei aufeinanderfolgenden Tagen zwei blutige Gewalttaten. Bei der heutigen Attacke tötete ein Achtklässler vier Menschen.
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Die armen armen reichen Umweltzerstörer. Schön, dass ihr euch mal wieder Sorgen um diese vernachlässigte Bevölkerungsschicht macht.
Schade, dass wir so einen weltverschlimmernden Dreck auch noch aus eigener Tasche finanzieren müssen.
Die ARD ist und bleibt eine rechtskonservative Drecksschleuder. Da seid ihr in Deutschland in bester Gesellschaft.
It is for parents to raise their children. Not platforms.
The European Age Verification App is ready.
It will allow users to prove their age when accessing online platforms. Just like shops ask for proof of age for people buying alcoholic beverages.
And it ticks all the boxes:
✅ Highest privacy standards in the world
✅ Works on any device
✅ Easy to use
✅ Fully open source
More info: link.europa.eu/HmnrJc
Statement by President von der Leyen with Executive Vice-President Virkkunen on the digital age verification app
Good morning,\nLast autumn, at the State of the Union address, I committed to making the online world safer for our children. We know that digital technology can give children incredible opportunities.European Commission - European Commission
oder
es ist nicht die Sache der Plattformen Kinder zu erziehen?
Und wenn es Sache der Eltern ist Kinder zu erziehen, warum mischt ihr euch dann mit einer Altersverifizierung ein?
An age verification app's back end is arguably just as important as the front end. No word on that yet.
And it goes without saying that nothing apart from the boolean "is user older than x" should be shared with a platform.
Curious to see how this plays out. Platforms wanting age verification shouldn't have to rely on infamous contractors that leak data.
But everyone is aware of the slippery slope: IDing everyone on the web isn't something we'll let happen without pushback.
can't wait to try on my PostMarketOS phone, running just Linux (no Android, no iOS) and if genuinely it "✅️ Works on any device".
I honestly hope so but until I can attest it I'll remain skeptical of that claim.
Also it's not open source until we can see the code. Making a statement without a link to the repository with the license is simply wrong.
Dear @HennaVirkkunen , I would like to report a 76-year-old man who should obviously not be left unsupervised on the internet and then spread Russian slopaganda to our entire Union. Can we adjust the app settings for this demographic?
Thanks.
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look I'm glad you guys considered privacy, that the app is opensource, etc, but to me it seems both unnecessary and dangerous, it's a whole new system that can fail and leak in its own ways, and this puts the burden of identifying on EVERYONE instead of the controls with parents that should be keeping an eye on their kids.
I don't have kids, and now every website is going to ask me personal details. No thanks. I guess I'll just selfhost everything then, just like the kids would?
For the record I never installed the Covid app you talk about in the link.
And I am also a parent. There's a simple way not to have kids on social media: give them a dumbphone instead of a smartphone.
And set up parental control on their devices.
If you wanted to do something meaningful you should have regulated all services and telecom providers to include advanced rules for parental controls.
Very bad idea. 🤬
I do not want Age Verification for everyone.
I don't want to exclude people.
No, it's not just like shops.
1. The shop keeps no record.
2. The shop only asks those that look young,
On the internet, any age verification results in everyone's details being stored and most of the companies are not trustworthy. The info will be sold or leaked.
It will be used for surveillance.
"It is for parents to raise their children. Not platforms."
So do no age verification. OTOH hold web sites and apps to the same standards as TV, Radio, billboards & print.
Fine them!
Is this another hack/databreach waiting to happen?
Nicht schon wieder die Kinder bei eurem Mist vorschieben. Ich kann das langsam nicht mehr hören.
Haltet ihr uns als Eltern nicht für mündig genug? Aber kann es sein, dass es euch vielleicht gar nicht darum geht, sondern nur um mehr Kontrolle?
Wie komme ich jetzt bloß auf solche Gedanken? 🤔
Bin auch sehr gespannt, wie die App dann so auf einem Linux-Phone läuft. Geht ja angeblich überall. 🐧 📱
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Being able to authoritatively prove adulthood without revealing any other personal information is a useful capability. However, age-gating the Internet is a terrible idea that risks accelerating surveillance and removing the human right to privacy in digital spaces.
A better solution: fund education of parents on digital risks and tools, education of children on digital literacy, and promotion of on-device parental controls. The obligation here is the guardian’s.
What does "Works on any device" mean on a technical level?
If it's meant seriously, it would be a portable C library, so that app developers for new platforms would just need to build a native GUI...
"It is for parents to raise their children. Not platforms."
Then don't make a damn app and leave parents and kids alone. It is that simple. You could instead:
- Raise awareness of privacy and security issues for kids (and users, in general).
- Educate kids in schools about responsable use of electronic devices.
- Just ban roblox and other pedo-infested platforms. Seriously. Predators don't hide in signal DMs precisely.
- Start reducing dependency on foreign private digital platforms that ARE out of your control and don't care about sanctions.
- Invest more resources on secure and free software that you can actually control.
No. It is also the responsibility of the platforms to raise our children.
Thank you on behalf of children without parents or failing parents; they appreciate your kindness.
Henna, please read these comments and provide a reply to the questions. Thanks!
Precisely because it is parents' duty to raise their children, age verification is useless:
- If children want to access to online platforms, they will.
- It won't guarantee that underage people won't access, it'll only verify that they'll access with their parents' permission, which is something it already happens.
- It won't make parents teach their children how to use them.
Wanna make children safe online? Create education programs, don't make everyone verify our ages.
How does this protect anybody?
Today's not 1st of April. You're trying to enter our chats, profiles and track us online, make the web worse and more dangerous that it needs to be. You want control without a real reason apart capitalism and power.
Tell us why you did this. Tell us why we need it. Tell us it's the best you can think of. Tell us the science that can backup this choice. Show us scientific data that proves that this solution is the better one. 1/X
Because no link to the application was posted, I assume its this github.com/eu-digital-identity… & github.com/eu-digital-identity….
Either way, Age Verification on the Internet as a concept is dangerous and many scientists have warned of it already in an open-letter.
We don't need Age Verification technology to protect children, we need regulation of big tech to reign in on maliciously created algorithms and practices.
And don't weaken the protections we already have with Omnibus.
This time around it's an L for you, EU.
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❓ "Highest privacy standards in the world"
You have merely claimed to have done threat modeling in the course of an "internal design process". To this day, you haven't published any related documents. "Trust me" and vague assertions don't prove anything.
What is currently published, though, rather diminishes trust, like your "important note" on PINs:
»To enhance security, it is strongly recommended that the allowed PINs raise the overall security level. Sequential or easily guessable patterns (such as "135246 or "147258") should not be permitted. Additionally, it is advisable to check against a list of the most commonly used or "pwned" PINs to prevent users from choosing weak credentials.«
❌ "Works on any device"
You have openly stated in 2025 already (and bluntly closed the related issue on GitHub as "completed"): "The project is currently focused on mobile platforms, specifically Android and iOS, as these cover the vast majority of end users and use cases. Desktop support is not in the current scope of the project, but we will take this suggestion on board."
No desktops, no de-googled phones.
That is: you are lying straight to our faces, here.
❓ "Easy to use"
Again, from your current "important note":
»This white-label application is a reference implementation of the Age Verification solution that should be customised before publishing it. The current version is not feature complete and will require further integration work before production deployment.«
How is ease of use, let alone accessibility, tested for a "white-label application [sic]" that isn't even customized?
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#ageverification #privacy
Dear #Zensursula,
fixed that for you:
"It is for parents to raise their children. Not the total #surveillance state. But since we don't care for children and use this sentimental bs only as cover up for our totalitarian dream:
The European #BigBrother App is ready.
It will allow us to follow your every step. Every move you make. We'll be watching you.
Just like China asks for proof of good behavior for people trying to access services like finance, travel or entertainment."
I don't like this part in technical specification:
&redirect_uri=av%3A%2F%2Fcallback
That's mean an Authorization endpoint can see what web am I visiting?
what a foilhead chatter here! 🤦🏻♂️
Good solution, it was urgently necessary! 👍
The state has to protect children.
So a device that infringes massively on your privacy, is described as having the..."highest privacy standards in the world". 🤣😅😂
Classic misdirection technique. SELL THE LIE!!!
#Linux support? Where is the actual link to the source code repository?
That being said, age verification is a terrible idea and I'm saying that as a parent of kids in the age bracket that you are so worried about! Regulate the huge social media corporations properly instead of acting like they're only problematic for minors.
I fear you'll just end up killing Linux on the desktop or smaller online forums or similar.
"They are personal digital wallets that allow citizens to digitally identify themselves, store and manage identity data and official documents in electronic format. These documents may include a driving licence, medical prescriptions or education qualifications. Thanks to the wallet, all citizens will be able to prove their identity where necessary to access services online, to share digital documents, or simply to prove a specific personal attribute" 🤨🤐🫣
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Q&A Digital Identity
The EU Digital Identity Wallet allows individuals to prove their identity when accessing digital services, store important documents, and securely share data while maintaining privacy. Find out more details about it in this FAQ.digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
No, no, and a thousand noes. Parental controls are something that already address your concern. They are available in any device, or you can push for an opensource alternative yourselves.
This is an attack on privacy, and the foundations of the free internet.
If "it is for the parents to raise their children", why do we have an ID verification app?
It is open-source, but is the back-end?
Highest privacy standard?
With #digitalomnibus I doubt that.
Just do not interfere with the privacy and usability of internet due to incompetent parents.
Also, what use doea ID verification app have when parents can it so their child can access the net?
Or the children using it without the knowledge of their parent?
Hope the code is readable& we'll see it soon on f-droid
Why is it not open source? You published the interoperable Europe Act. You published an open source strategy and have an open source programme office. Experts could easily verify it, it would be easy integrate-able in European software and help non-European countries to establish a secure, privacy-preserving, non-tracking own app.
Do you understand what you are doing? What freedoms you are quietly eroding? What for?
There is nothing more private then just having NO IDAV in place.
I dont trust you to keep my data safe just as I dont trust anyone.
It is obvious you want to protect children from harm, but what is verification of age now, is soon gonna be "passport please", and then you get arrested for a opinion on the internet.
Welcome to North Korea.
It is using tech from pallantir? Is it deleting the IDs just after verification?
People should get a license before even thinking of having children
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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “age estimation” methods—before granting them access …Electronic Frontier Foundation
If you were actually "holding platforms accountable" with the digital services act then you would not need Age Verification.
Your argument just failed.
Hi, @rubinjoni. Platforms already have responsibilities under the Digital Services Act when it comes to protecting users, including minors.
This solution complements those efforts by giving users a way to prove their age online while protecting their privacy. More info here: link.europa.eu/gbRf9h
The Digital Services Act
The Digital Services Act helps to make the online environment safe and trustworthy.Shaping Europe’s digital future
Hi, @kennergf .
Parents play a key role in keeping children safe online.
That is why the Commission also engages with parents, young people and educators to better understand their perspectives. For example, a Special Panel on child safety online was held recently to discuss how to make the digital environment safer for children.
The aim is not to replace parents, but to help ensure that children can enjoy the opportunities of the online world in a safe way.
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"Just like shops ask for proof of age for people buying alcoholic beverages."
Which they don't. We're not in the US.
Hi,@anarchic_teapot The comparison is just an example to illustrate situations where age needs to be confirmed.
The focus here is on enabling that online in a way that protects users’ privacy by only confirming age, not identity.
More information: link.europa.eu/fkGCth
Commission makes available an age-verification blueprint
To help online platforms implement a user-friendly and privacy-preserving age verification method, the Commission is developing a harmonised approach in close collaboration with the Member States.Shaping Europe’s digital future
I'm sure that'll impress Meta, to name only them, who insist on full ID in certain circumstances.
But the kids will find a way around it anyway.
@anarchic_teapot
Dear EU Commission, please answer one very simple question.
Will everyone have to own an Android or iOS device in order to be able to use the age confirmation system?
Some of us really do not use either and do not wish to be forced to use them either.
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Age verification is a deliberate attack on system sovereignty, both for individuals and countries. There’s no “age verifcation”, there is only “identity verification that includes age”, and the system doing that verification is not just a privacy-inv…mhoye (CoSocial)
"Just like shops ask for proof of age for people buying alcoholic beverages."
This claim is simply false - shops don't demand proof of age of most people. In most cases they can tell by simply looking at the customer.
Please stop publishing lies about this.
The code WILL NOT run on ANY device.
My primary phone is a recently purchased 4G dumb phone with no internet capabilities and RAM measured in megabytes.
It is a device.
It does what I need it to do and I expect to get ten years worth of use out of it.
I cannot install any apps on it.
Who will make this code run on my dumb phone so that I am not forced to buy a smartphone with an OS developed in the US?
From the EU statement "Social media platforms offer highly addictive designs – infinite scrolling that is feeding the addiction, short videos snap attention span, highly personalised content, targeted. "
So fix the bloody platforms that harm our children first.
Making adults compensate for a lack of regulation by the EU of the digital market place by forcing them to constantly ID themselves is addressing the wrong set of issues.
This renders internet services unusable for adults as well! Why would I trust my personal data to a random BigTech company?
And no, no adult looking like an adult is asked to provide an ID when buying alcohol. And even if, this data would not be stored somewhere.
Please try to solve the problem at the root and control THEM (Big Tech), not us! You have the DSA, please enforce it!
er how about NOT having age verification? this is from the same people who proposed #chatControl which had the same "think of the kids!" excuse, while the authors of the proposal are not affected at all.
and besides, this is just a step forward to mass surveillance.
If you’re interested in how it works in practice, you can read more here:
link.europa.eu/fkGCth
Commission makes available an age-verification blueprint
To help online platforms implement a user-friendly and privacy-preserving age verification method, the Commission is developing a harmonised approach in close collaboration with the Member States.Shaping Europe’s digital future
@raccoon
@raccoon It is impossible to check age without disclosing an identity. That means the member states and or EU offices in some way will be able to disclose the identity of a user.
This is not OK and a breach of the EU charter (again).
Function creep has always existed and will also exist in the future. You can be sure this technology will be used for other goals than the protection of children.
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Age verification, even with zero knowledge proofs is a dangerous precedent to set, as it locks down the internet by default and that is the dream for any authoritarian.
Instead dear @EUCommission why not defend the free internet? As you said: "It is for parents to raise their children." Just sign into law that minors are only allowed to be given devices with child protection mode by their parents and leave the rest of us the hell alone.
shame on you. All child protection groups are screaming that it's a terrible idea. You're pushing children towards the dark web, you're taking their safe spaces, preventing them from learning to navigate the world of information (until 18 when they're magically no longer vulnerable). And we all have to pay for this with our privacy.
If you want to protect kids, fix the climate change and control American social networks - for everyone.
IMHO, this approach will fail. Whatever runs on your device, especially if open source, you can manipulate at will. So there will be replacements for this App that allow you to enter any age.
Australia already shows that teenagers don't let them stop that easily.
Next step therefore will be to enforce age verification by restricting users' power and freedom over their own devices, and/or communicating back to some state/company controlled infrastructure.
"
✅ Works on any device"
*Any* device? Really? Or only iOS and Android devices?
Age verification is not a "good idea" for anyone.
It doesn't stop youngsters from accessing ' illegal" sites, they will find a way around it, but what these laws do accomplish is:
- Everyone, will have to upload their official ID on the internet, thus exposing all *your* personal information to hackers via data leaks.
*Your ID* can then be used to do all sorts of fraudulent activities, and *you* will be responsible for untangling the mess -- it will take years , plus you will be forced to pay out all legal fees, not the website or the government.
Additionally, because the government can monitor every keystroke from your computer or other device, you could be penalized for your opinion....not to mention I don't want to live in a dictatorship like North Korea, China, or Russia --censorship is terrible for democracy.
-kids will learn how to become 'hackers' in order to circumvent law so, I ask you how does this improve the life of children or yourself?
...but it only works with american proprietary phones so since I have an European phone I guess I am considered underage now.
What a way to throw privacy out the window. To exclude yet again children and teenagers from society, until the day we throw them inside without warning. To throw the one and best rule of the internet that gave us true liberty and made it great: never give your identity. And to help pirates have more data to steal (we know how government protects our data, we are used to being defenceless against it).
But wait its open-source !
Now do IQ verification for car drivers.
Ten years ago I observed texting while driving once or twice daily. Today I'd be surprised if it went below 50% of the drivers. It's absurd we allow morons to operate death machines; unfortunately our "economy" is highly car centric.
Counterintuitively though, road accidents have been dropping somewhat, at least in Belgium: statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/mobi…
Nevertheless, texting and driving remains an act of morons.
It is for parents to raise their children. Correct.
Hence, this absurd techno-fix isn't a solution.
Who is behind this?
Interesting approach to a critical problem.
Surely, it's not perfect. There real challenge is to improve it, not enshittify it.
Once again, the EU shows that regulation is the way forward on key issues, not laissez faire techbros. Time for the UK and other countries to follow their lead.
Age verification is a truly terrible idea.
It doesn't protect children.
It shields American tech companies from lawsuits when they are negligent in their duty to public safety.
These are laws that will enrich Meta and Google.
Okay I'll bite, in the UK (Scotland) even in my mid thirties I fell foul of the challenge 25 laws. So I carried the easier to replace ID which I had to carry when driving. My driving license.
I'd often get challenged. Which meant I had to show my ID with my home address to a total stranger. When the check out guy was a man it felt unsafe
As someone who's been stalked, it's not safe showing that information to a complete stranger. Let alone an untrustworthy org like Europol.
Age Verification Apps will do zero to help keep children safe. If a technology is being heavily lobbied by Mark Zuckerberg at Meta and Sam Altman at OpenID is a big red flag. Didn't you learn anything from Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica scandal!!!
If you really want to keep children safe you would keep pressure on the US to release the Epstein files and prosecute all the pedophiles involved in it.
Liars!
Here, i'll fix it for you:
It has nothing to do with children. It doesn't help children. It doesn't help parents raise any children.
❌ Made to render any kind of privacy impossible
❌ Works on almost no device
❌ Impossible to use, without ties to unethical big tech apple and google
✅ Fully open source
edit: reported for deliberately and knowingly spreading misinformation.
The proposal raises fundamental concerns that remain unanswered.
The comparison to offline age checks is misleading: online verification is inherently scalable, leaves digital traces, and can enable tracking.
In practice, this is not just age verification, but a layer of digital identification with clear risks of future expansion.
BTW, where is the evidence that age verification actually improves children’s safety?
This is a terrible idea dreamt up by lazy, wilfully ill-informed ministers.
works on any device ❌ - only Android, Apple with corresponding accounts, so yes vendor lock in and platform dependent.
Highest privacy standards in the world ❌ - Not really, considering it requires face scanning. Also only pseudonymity no anonymity is guaranteed, so the same platform can easily link transactions.
What's the point in building another US-dependency that doesn't even solve any problems, as it's obviously not enforceable and also trivial to circumvent.
EU's New Age Verification App Can Be Hacked Within 2 Minutes, Researchers Claim
The European Commission's newly launched Digital Age Verification App, unveiled on April 14, 2026, to protect minors from harmful online content, has already been compromised, with UK-based security consultant Paul Moore demonstrating a full authenti…Guru Baran (CybersecurityNews)
there is no way any electronic scanning device will my near my ID papers. ABSO-FUCKING-NO.
Get your privacy mind on that. ID theft is real, every day, and that is just helping them.
Your real world shop analogy never works, stop using it.
Shopkeepers sight physical IDs and nothing is ever exposed to the internet and nothing is ever in danger of being stolen or breached by cybercriminals.
Once biometrics are lost, you can't just change them like a password.
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The existing law is ignored by malicious actors, including major platforms. This one will be too, but will cost millions in parterships with local agencies and third-party consultants, all with our money.
Please stop create new gatekeeping.
Enforce the law.
"Works on any device"
Does it work on properly free phones - PostMarketOS, LineageOS, GrapheneOS, /e/os? Does it work on ANYTHING that's not tied to the Google, Apple or Microsoft surveillance empires?
For that matter, does it work on desktop Linux systems such as Fedora, Mint, Arch, for people who do not have smartphones?
I bet I know the answer to both questions.
What a joke.
It is for the EU to regulate the platforms!
What do we need you for, if you chicken out before Zuckerberg & Co and introduce their lobby ideas instead of enforcing your own regulation against them?!
> It is for parents to raise their children
Maybe leave it up to the parents to do the parenting? It's not your 'job'.
And the source code is on M$ GitHub.
And I'm sure you've made it dependent on Google's and Apple's software, making yourself even more dependent on the US.
Have you ever considered NOT listening to US Big Tech lobbyists for your 'ideas'?
There are plenty of knowledgeable people in the EU who could give you actual useful suggestions who don't have an agenda.
EU failing again to be European, tying European citizens to an App that runs only on the American duopoly of communication.
Moreover, inventing an unnecessary "solution": they could have simply studied what Estonia did, which incidentally is an European member.
Shame on you, for not representing decently us European citizens.
"any device" does not apply to:
- HarmonyOS devices
- LineageOS devices
- /e/OS devices
- postmarketOS devices
- GrapheneOS devices
- Linux Laptops
- Android devices of which Google believes they're not worthy to be used
I don't own any of your "any devices", since I prefer to keep Google out of my most personal life and data, I also plan to keep it that way.
"It is for parents to raise their children. Not platforms."
As a parent, I don't want to give my data or my children's data to a platform. I want to parent. Regulate platforms, not parents.
those promises don't worth a dime if there's no meaningful discussion instead just "this is your future, deal with it".
It's like a rapist saying it's not gonna hurt.
Still not convinced of the need for a technical solution to protecting children online (as opposed to parenting).
However, props to the EU for their open source, cross-platform approach.
I could actually get behind this, if the initial certificate request would be a one time login to a government website, using an eID. Any validation by a 3rd party company would be a no-go.
With the cert. then containing only a boolean, this looks like a rather acceptable idea.
so educate parents and leave it to parents
Devices already have tons of safety tools on them
You need to regulate social media, not Europeans.
And if you make an app, at least make it possible to run without Apple or Google consent. What happened to digital sovereignty?
#AgeVerification
How about just banning children from the internet instead like a number of countries are doing right now, instead of enforcing a stupid app on the entirety of Europe that will suck for everyone and not work on all OS'es.
If this moronic idea would be put into a referendum, it would be dead and gone within a week. Just because parents don't wanna take their fucking responsibility by putting a mobile phone in the hands of their children, everyone else should not be punished.
Keep the internet free from control.
this is the WRONG decision.
Age verification does not protect children, it donates people's information for interests contrary to their well being, privacy and freedom.
The E.U. Commission completely lost the plot on the whole Internet.
What's this, @EUCommission ?
Are you trying to hide the fact that the European Age Verification App has been vibe-coded with Anthropic's LLM?
github.com/eu-digital-identity…
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Contribute to eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
To verify that every adult is an adult, you need to identify every adult. And children will not be protected. Age verification carries consequences that go well beyond its stated purpose.
So wow, thank you for repressing my freedom and creating an infrastructure that can be used to monitor, map, or suppress citizens. In the name of “the poor children”. What a great idea at the same time as fascism is on the rise.
You are exposing to all app publishers which of their users are children. The perfect tool for any app publisher who is a paedophile.
Age verification is a terrible idea and should be completely scrapped.
The highest privacy standards in the world can be broken in two minutes. Nothing to boast about, really.
politico.eu/article/eu-brussel…
Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it.
Cyber experts say they have found holes in Brussels’ age verification app, despite claims by the EU executive that it is “technically ready.”Émile Marzolf (POLITICO)
Please don't do that.
We don't need Age Verification, we need education.
"Just like shops ask for proof of age for people buying alcoholic beverages."
In real life, people can go shopping in a supermarket without an ID. It will be necessary only if they try to buy alcohol.
Generalized age verification to access a platform, whether some content should be restricted or not, is a privacy issue.
Harmful content is harmful also for adults, BTW. Most of it is just illegal activities and platforms should seriously face their own issues.
You're burying freedom and celebrate it using the line that was an old dog whistle for reactionary politics even back when The Simpsons took it up in the Nineties - what a travesty!
Yes, parents should raise their children, but do you also know who should raise children: the rest of society! Ever heard of "it takes a village to raise a child"?
Like it or not, society is taking place more in virtual spaces than in physical ones, nowadays. Excluding youths from taking part in discussions that shape society will lead to adults that are ill-prepared to combat fake news and recruitment by the far right.
The corollary is that anybody who is speaking out against those who want to turn our society into an authoritarian one will wary of doing so in online spaces, because every message, every rebuke of a hateful message can ultimately be tracked. I don't care how super-duper your app is, once the enemies of democracy take power, the data will be there and it will be searchable.
Anonymity can be used as a cloak for evil, but more often it is a shield for the vulnerable, a way to speak up without being doxxed and harassed and a way to find information that abusers don't want you to find.
Should we try to make our children safer online? Absolutely, but there are better ways than that, unfortunately, the all cost time and money. Just shooting an app at the problem is easy and low-cost. Invest in education, invest in psychologically trained law-enforcement, invest in holding platforms responsible for their decisions.
PS: I don't have a smartphone and no webcam either. I guess I'll have to stay offline then.
Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it.
Cyber experts say they have found holes in Brussels’ age verification app, despite claims by the EU executive that it is “technically ready.”Émile Marzolf (POLITICO)
don’t understand what are we going to reach here… age verification reminds when we are young and want to go to a bar, if we are blocked we workaround and ask someone of age to buy drinks…
How do you intend to do when some pricks decide to stream online a violation at TikTok like unfortunately happens at PT??
Remove all responsibility from the social platform just because of age verification.
The problem of online is the advertising and all about 💰->
RE: mastodon.social/@pojntfx/11641…
@EUCommission I can't load the linked page without allowing the domain manually because it's in the Amazon spyware blocklist of Safing Portmaster. "Highest privacy standards in the world", right? RIGHT? 😉
social.linux.pizza/@pojntfx@ma…
"Works on any device", right? RIGHT?
Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (@pojntfx@mastodon.social)
Doesn't work without a Google/Apple-tied device btw. There is absolutely no story for how this would work on a desktop, anything without a Google/Apple account, or open source OS at all either.Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (Mastodon)
mark my words. First they will introduce age verification. Then GPS location based on proximity to open wifi networks.
I actually think about going full TOR. EU is getting Russia standards when it comes to privacy limitation. You should all be ashamed of your work.
For the age verification, I am sure there will be left overs with impossible accesses... we'll see how big it becomes...
HOWEVER, I find it quite cautious to state that parents are responsible for education and not platforms.
E.g. sometimes they don't perform ideally: youtube.com/watch?v=Jf7JUino5V… (this "In Vitro Veritas" by Les Glands ne savent pas sauter, sorry no other source): A scaring dialogue of improvisation.
Parents can be responsible... with help! E.g. from #teachers .
IN VITRO VERITAS
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I do really hope you're going to fix the vulnerabilities found by researchers. More, given that this is a blueprint app, will the single state implementation be open source? Because I'd like them to be verifiable by the public, and not closed source
EU's New Age Verification App Can Be Hacked Within 2 Minutes, Researchers Claim
The European Commission's newly launched Digital Age Verification App, unveiled on April 14, 2026, to protect minors from harmful online content, has already been compromised, with UK-based security consultant Paul Moore demonstrating a full authenti…Guru Baran (CybersecurityNews)
And it's not our smartphones' job to control us. It's actually the opposite: they're our property so WE control THEM.
The idea of our machines checking our age is completly unacceptable.
Get your hands off our hardware.
Who are you working for ? European people or FACEBOOK ?
trying to tick boxes ..
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- [ ] "works on every device " ?
are you sure ?
what if i got only fdroids apps on my phone
(no google PLAY-store or any coporate_tools)
do you got flatpak or the AppImage
maybe availability for linux as e.g. #CoMaps
comaps.app/download/
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- [-] safe ?
.. i heard it was easily cracked , .. any comment ?
info to appimage
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Shops ask for proof of age when buying alcoholic beverages for single use only. They don't request, retain, process or share a copy of your passport, address, contact details or any other personal information to use in own benefit.
You would not allow the shops to take a copy of your ID, the same like you would never give Apple a copy of your ID for the pretext of "age verification"
#digitalID #privacy #ageVerification #sovereignty #control #corruption #humanRights #naturalLaw
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Schutz für Kinder und Jugendliche: EU-App zur Altersprüfung im Internet ist fertig
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Vorher fertig Denken ist immer sinnvoll. Gerade Journalisten sollten deggogled sein.
- Senioren ohne Smartphone, die vielleicht noch einen Computer haben werden ausgeschlossen
- Alle #degoogled Smartphone Benutzer, ala #GrapheneOS , #LineageOS und andere werden ausgeschlossen, da die App vermutlich nicht Open Sourece im #FDroid verfügbar ist
- Alle #Linux am #Smartphone User ala #ubports #postmarkeos #mobian und andere werden ausgeschlossen, weil es da die App nicht gibt.
Die meisten Betriebssysteme haben dafür schon einen Schutzmechanismus eingebaut. Mit dem Betriebssystem meines Handys @iode z.B. kann man entsprechende Seiten blocken und Apps sperren.
Kein Grund alle zu überwachen, eine einfache firewall reicht für den Kinderschutz.
"Zudem sei der Quellcode offen zugänglich."
Das nenne ich fortschritt. Allerdings zweifle ich, bis ich sie gesehen habe, eine lokale umsetzbarkeit der Datenverarbeitung an, da eine solche anfällig für modifikationen oder das simulieren durch eine alternativ-App ist. Über den aspekt der nutzbarkeit auf alternativen Betriebssystemen muss auch gesprochen werden.
Alles in allem denke ich, dass man nicht vorzeitig urteilen darf.
Hoffentlich giebt es keine Uploads in die Cloud...
Und ein Pseudonymität ist auch nicht gleich Anonymität.
Fr. #VonDerLeyen ist eine Gefahrenquelle die wir schon viel zu lange nicht fixen! netzpolitik.org/2026/gesichtss…
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Warum will die Union weiter unser Geld und die Erde verbrennen?
man sollte als #CDU vielleicht auch mal erkennen das die #erneuerbaren die günstigste Energie ist anstelle so an allem alten fest zu kleben nur weil die #Lobby es so meint? Zudem wären wir dann unabhängig und müssten uns keine Sorgen über eine Seestraße sonstwo machen. Bitte!
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✈️ Vor 100 Jahren ist der erste Lufthansa-Flieger abgehoben. Derzeit bleiben aber viele am Boden.
🛬 Am Mittwoch und Donnerstag streikt das Kabinenpersonal, für Donnerstag und Freitag hat die Vereinigung Cockpit die Piloten erneut zur Arbeitsniederlegung aufgerufen.
📝
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Deutschland führt Kastensystem ein:
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Insbesondere die unteren Kasten werden zunehmend verhöhnt und von höchsten Stellen immer wieder beleidigt.
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#Drogenboot #Angriff #USA
und die Tagesschau sendet Videos von Morden.
Ich zahle ja gerne meine Angaben, aber was kommt als nächstes: epstein Videos?
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Und die erhöhten Ausgaben dafür entziehen wichtiges Kapital, das man für die Transition benötigen würde.
HIER sollte die @Bundesregierung ansetzen, statt mit der Gießkanne Öl zu subventionieren.
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Ohje, wieder was, was in die Hose geht ... 😏
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Kann bitte jemand Papst Leo sagen, dass Iran in den letzten zwei Monaten mindestens 42.000 unschuldige, völlig unbewaffnete Demonstranten getötet hat?", schrieb Trump am späten Dienstagabend (Ortszeit) auf seiner Plattform Truth Social.
Was für ein scheinheiliger ..... Recktum.
Wie lange ist es her, das er damit gedroht hat über 80 Mio Iraner in die Hölle zu schicken, oder so ähnlich ?
Während er selbst plant, die Zwischenwahlen zu verhindern und paramilitärische Truppen mit Militärwaffen gegen Demonstranten am nächsten „No Kings Day“ einzusetzen,
starben zwischen Oktober und Februar 28 Häftlinge in seinen Gefangenenlagern. Hinzu kommen zwei amerikanische Staatsbürger, die auf offener Straße hingerichtet wurden. Einer von ihnen, weil er einer gestürzten Frau helfen wollte.
(This post quickly exceeded my German skills, so Google had to help a little - hope the translation is understandable.)
Dieu
Als Antwort auf Bundesregierung • • •UdoKa
Als Antwort auf Bundesregierung • • •Mit einem Klick, nachdem Du eine Bund ID für Dich eingerichtet hast, nachdem Du eine Justiz ID unter Deiner Bund ID eingerichtet hast. Und natürlich hast Du noch immer keine Ahnung von Gesetzen, weshalb Du mit jedem Klick weitere Gerichtskosten verursachest und am Ende hohe Kosten, unendlich viel verbrannte Zeit und Nerven hast, ohne das eingeklagte Geld oder was auch immer zu bekommen.
PS: 120 € Bearbeitungsgebühr für Eröffnung eines hinterlegten Testaments
unevil_cat
Als Antwort auf Bundesregierung • • •Brian von Nazareth
Als Antwort auf Bundesregierung • • •Weiter so, dann erleben meine Urenkel die Digitalisierung deutscher Behörden noch! 👍 Ich kauf mir schon mal ein Modem für dieses neumodische Internet.
"Die Evaluation des Online-Verfahrens erfolgt nun früher als ursprünglich geplant: Eine erste Überprüfung ist bereits nach zwei Jahren vorgesehen, weitere nach vier und acht Jahren (§ 1136 ZPO)."
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Erprobung des Online-Verfahrens vor den Amtsgerichten startet
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