The giant of American technology Google reaffirmed its opposition to the “misleading” proposal promoted by its rival goal (Facebook, Instagram) to establish an online user verification in terms of application stores on Friday.
A position shared by Apple: in a white paper published in February, the firm Cupertino stressed that “only a small part of the applications requires age verification” and that “the correct place” to apply this verification is limited to “websites and applications” in question.
An approach that is torn
According to Google, this would also allow the “applications applicants to evade their responsibilities” while they are not effective, because “computers or other devices commonly shared within families would not be covered.”
Therefore, the group responds to an advertising campaign launched in May by goal by calling “European regulations that require age verification and a parental agreement in the App Store”, to “better protect” minors.
The European regulation on digital services (DSA), which entered into force last year, stipulates that the verification of service users are applications or sites themselves. But some content suppliers, such as the Giant of Aylo Pornographic Sites, defend age verification in terms of devices and their operating system.
This approach “would modify the protocols of the decentralized web, with consequences that are difficult to anticipate,” Google replied in his blog note. This weapons pass occurs when the subject is gaining impulse in France and Europe.
Last week, several EU countries, including France, Spain and Greece, asked Brussels to supervise even more the use of online platforms by children, given the concerns about their addictive character, but also the dangers linked to cyberbulk or the proliferation of hate speeches.
On Tuesday, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, undertakes to prohibit social networks under 15 in France if “in a few months”, this was not done at European level.
Source: BFM TV
