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EU Unveils Kids Act Built on Its Own Age Verification Tool

Technology · Big Tech & Free Speech

EU Unveils Kids Act Built on Its Own Age Verification Tool

Brussels wants to ban under-13s from social media using an app it designed itself, raising questions about a regulator that also builds the verification infrastructure it will police.

Brussels Moves to Set Age Rules for Social Media Across the EU

News · Global

Brussels Moves to Set Age Rules for Social Media Across the EU

Ursula von der Leyen's KIDS Act would bar under-13s from social media and hand parents Commission-designed 'mini accounts' for teenagers, replacing family judgment with a bloc-wide identity and access system.

Brussels offers Canada a membership category that does not exist in law

News · Global

Brussels offers Canada a membership category that does not exist in law

Ursula von der Leyen invited Canada to become the EU's first associate member in her Strasbourg address, and reporting since indicates neither the legal content nor the approval route has been defined.

Von der Leyen’s European Security Council collides with NATO inside her own party

News · Global

Von der Leyen’s European Security Council collides with NATO inside her own party

The Commission president used her Strasbourg address to propose a leaders' security forum with Britain, Norway, Canada and Ukraine, and conservative lawmakers in her own group dismissed it almost immediately.

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