Proposal for EU KIDS Act - 'EU Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy'

The European Commission proposed the EU KIDS Act, which would bar children under 15 from autonomously creating accounts on certain online social networking services and video-sharing platforms. The proposal sets a single age threshold of 15 across the European Union to harmonize diverging national rules, uphold the Digital Single Market, and establish a coherent regulatory and enforcement framework for protecting minors from risky digital services and AI systems. The Commission published the proposal alongside a communication on an EU approach to online child safety and a Staff Working Document analyzing the proposal's impacts.

This proposal seeks to protect minors from risky digital services and AI systems, uphold the digital single market and maintain a coherent regulatory framework and enforcement structure for the protection of minors online. The proposal recognises the risks that minors face on certain online social networking services and video-sharing platforms and therefore limits autonomous account creation on those specific platforms and systems by children below the age of 15 years. By providing one age across the European Union, it harmonises diverging national rules removing obstacles to the implementation of the Digital Single Market, ensuring legal certainty and a similar level of protection for all children in the European Union. Find further information: Downloads 1 - Proposal for EU KIDS Act - 'EU Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy' Download https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/132530 2 - Communication accompanying the KIDS Act - An EU approach to online child safety Download https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/132528 3 - Staff Working Document SWD - Analysis of Impacts accoumpaning the proposal for EU kids Act Download https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/132529