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EU Lawmakers Back EU-Wide Age Checks for Social Media
The European Parliament has backed an EU-wide framework for age checks on social media platforms, pushing for consistent rules on how providers verify that under-16s are kept off services where they are not allowed.
2025-11-28CC-BY-4.0age-assuranceprivacy
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Key Facts
- MEPs support mandatory age checks for platforms with minimum age requirements, with safeguards against excessive data collection.
- The proposal emphasizes privacy-preserving age assurance, avoiding general monitoring of all users.
- If finalized, the framework would force platforms to standardize age checks across EU member states.
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EU lawmakers are pressing for harmonized, privacy-aware age checks on social media, signaling that platforms will need robust age assurance mechanisms to keep under-16s off services where they are not permitted.