Today's meeting focused on current EU rules and initiatives to protect minors online, shared by experts advising Member States, as well as international approaches, such as Australia's social media minimum age. This meeting follows yesterday's presentation by the Commission of the final EU age verification app, the most privacy-preserving and user-friendly tool to protect children online.
President Ursula von der Leyen, said:
“We must protect our children in the online world, just as we do in the offline world. And for that, we need a harmonised European approach. Yesterday, I presented our EU age verification app - this is our European solution. With the highest privacy standards in the world. I encourage all our Member States to start customising our app so it can be used by citizens soon. Because this tool will help parents protect their children across platforms.”
Read more about the Special Panel on child online safety.