Showing your ID to get online might become a reality – a closer look at the EU’s new age verification app
Coming to a website near you this summer: the European Commission is close to a ‘solution’ that could force people to use their government-issued ID to get online. EDRi and EFF’s concerns about threats to everyone’s privacy and data protection, a chilling effect on access to information, and digital exclusion – harming the already most marginalised in society - remain unsolved.
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Showing your ID to get online might become a reality – a closer look at the EU’s new age verification app
Coming to a website near you this summer: the European Commission is close to a ‘solution’ that could force people to use their government-issued ID to get online. EDRi and EFF’s concerns about threats to everyone’s privacy and data protection, a chilling effect on access to information, and digital exclusion – harming the already most marginalised in society - remain unsolved.
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Protection through empowerment and not exclusion: EDRi’s response to DSA Article 28 call for evidence
On 30 September, EDRi and its members submitted a response to the European Commission’s call for evidence for the DSA Article 28 guidelines for the protection of minors online. The submission focused on the importance of a holistic approach and relying on empowering young people, rather than excluding them.
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Open letter: The dangers of age verification proposals to fundamental rights online
On 16 September, EDRi and 63 organisations, academics and experts in privacy, encryption, child safety, sex workers' rights and consumer rights issued a joint statement urging the European Commission to prioritise effective child safety measures while expressing serious concerns about the suitability, proportionality, and negative impact on fundamental rights of current age verification proposals.
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