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Google backs EU age-verification plans, countering Meta’s app-store lobbying

By Sara Brandstätter and Patricia Figueiredo ( June 13, 2025, 16:07 GMT | Insight) -- Google today publicly backed the EU’s “risk-based” approach to online age verification, including development of an EU-wide system and child-protection guidelines for online platforms covered by the Digital Services Act. The company also rejected Meta’s efforts to convince European regulators that age checks should be a responsibility for app stores or operating systems — such as Google provides. Google called the approach "ineffective."Google today publicly backed the EU’s “risk-based” approach to online age verification, including development of an EU-wide system and child-protection guidelines for online platforms covered by the Digital Services Act....

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