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www.euractiv.com

Online games sites, AI chatbots and companions as well as social media platforms will soon have to carry out age verification when a user opens a new account, according to documents obtained by Euractiv.

  • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    1 hour ago

    Yar har maties, the ghosts of Störtebekker, Warwick and Beneck are calling you to join their crew! Wileth ye sail the temperamentful lady, the high sea?

  • geissi@feddit.orgEnglish
    14·
    15 hours ago

    “The Commission’s widely expected proposal” is not the same as “Will soon have to”.
    Not everything the commission proposes gets passed.

  • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.orgEnglish
    8·
    17 hours ago

    My steam account is 22 years old. I wonder if I will need to verify that I’m in fact older than 18, LOL

    • glasratz@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      50 minutes ago

      My gold gmail account was 21 years old but google still took down my restaurant reviews if the owners complained - due to me allegedly being a recently created bot account. So I don’t think they take that into account at all.

    • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
      6·
      16 hours ago

      You will have to verify that you are the one who is using your account.

      • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.orgEnglish
        31·
        3 hours ago

        That doesn’t prove more than the age of the account, though - if I share the account details with anyone, there’s more than one user and at least one is of unknown age. And assuming the og owner isn’t e.g. dead (or made several accounts), it’d make no difference to verifying my age now to prove I’m an adult…