The EU’s age verification app for online platforms is technically ready and will soon be available to use, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said.<\/p>\n
Rather than banning social media use for under 16s, the Irish Government is developing a digital wallet which will verify a user’s age based on their PPS number.<\/p>\n
Ms von der Leyen listed Ireland as one of the member states that are “frontrunners” and “making great progress” along with France, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Spain and Cyprus.<\/p>\n
“They are planning to integrate the app into their national wallets,” she said.<\/p>\n
“This app will allow users to prove their age when accessing online platforms. Just like shops ask for proof of age for people buying alcoholic beverages in a shop.”<\/p>\n
Ms von der Leyan said the app is user-friendly.<\/p>\n
“You download the app. You set it up with your passport or ID card. You then prove your age when accessing online services,” she said.<\/p>\n
She added that the app “respects the highest privacy standards in the world”.<\/p>\n
Privacy campaigners in Ireland have expressed concerns about requiring people to share their PPS numbers in order to gain access to online platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU’s age verification app for online platforms is technically ready and will soon be available to use,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-532303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}