25 Aug, 2026
    Minimum age for social media: government wants to better protect children
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    State Secretary Aerdts currently considers the online world insufficiently safe for children and is therefore advocating for a European minimum age for social media. According to her, social media platforms

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    19 Jul, 2026
    EU Age Verification under scrutiny as transparency questions remain
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    The European Commission’s DG CONNECT disclosed nine documents in response to an access-to-documents request, but all were already publicly available resources. No Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA), internal privacy-by-design documentation,

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    25 Jun, 2026
    Minimum age of 15 for social media legally feasible in the Netherlands, but practically challenging
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    According to UvA researchers, it is legally possible to introduce a minimum age of 15 for ‘unsafe’ social media in the Netherlands without waiting for new EU legislation. Other European

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