Vasilis Ververis is postdoctoral researcher for Path to Power, a team at Hasso Plattner Institute of the University of Potsdam and PrivacyLx co-founder. In this article he answers the main on standardized age-verification accross the EU. This is an excerpt and the full post can be found here.
In 2026, the European Commission formally asked all EU Member States to deploy a standardized EU age-verification app by the end of this year, either as a standalone application or as an integration into national or EU digital identity wallets, framing it as a key tool to protect children from harmful online content while preserving user privacy.
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I have long thought that compartmentalization was a realistic, and indeed the best technique for an individual to avoid privacy breaches when using the Internet in their day-to-day lives. However, recently I was talking with a student who practiced compartmentalization in her everyday life, and yet still fell victim to a privacy violation. Despite being a computer science student with plenty of technical knowledge and hands-on privacy experience, she still fell victim to a privacy violation referred to as accidental outing.
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The Reclaim Your Face Campaign It’s a European Citizens’s Initiative (petition) with the goal of banning biometric mass surveillance.
You can read more about it and sign it at reclaimyourface.eu
Signature Collection Our team will be going to the streets in Lisbon to collect signatures. And we’ve already started! On the 25th of April (freedom day in Portugal) we walked along Restauradores collecting signatures with the following poster:
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