EU Presents Guidelines for Protection of Minors and Blueprint for Age Rating Apps
The EU has presented its guidelines on youth protection under the DSA and a blueprint for an age verification app. Denmark, France, Spain, Italy and Greece are leading the way as pilot markets for the project, which will also be relevant for the games industry.
Caroline Stage Olsen, Minister for Digital Affairs of Denmark, and Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and DemocracyScreenshot press conference stream
The EU and youth protection advocates are primarily concerned with social media in both the guidelines and the age verification app, but youth protection under the Digital Services Act (DSA) covers digital platforms of all kinds. This includes the online services of console manufacturers as well as games that have developed into platforms and ecosystems such as Minecraft, Roblox and Fortnite. The same applies to games that achieve correspondingly high user numbers.
The EU and youth protection advocates are primarily concerned with social media in both the guidelines and the age verification app, but youth protection under the Digital Services Act (DSA) covers digital platforms of all kinds. This includes the online services of console manufacturers as well as games that have developed into platforms and ecosystems such as Minecraft, Roblox and Fortnite. The same applies to games that achieve correspondingly high user numbers.
