Age verification in the EU: eIDs, the EUDI Wallet and the age app
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EU age-verification policy is increasingly centered on electronic identities, the forthcoming European Digital Identity Wallet, and an EU age-verification app designed to confirm adulthood while minimizing disclosure of names, birth dates, and browsing activity. Digital Services Act guidelines distinguish self-declaration, age estimation, and age verification, expecting verification for high-risk services such as pornography and gambling while allowing facial age estimation only temporarily when comparable verification is unavailable. Several national eID systems, including Germany’s Online-Ausweis, Austria’s ID Austria, Belgium’s itsme, and Latvia’s eParaksts, can provide age-threshold claims without revealing full identity data, although many systems instead share a date of birth. Member States are required to offer EUDI Wallets by December 2026, with age attestations intended to support privacy-preserving over-18 proofs, while the Commission has urged deployment of the separate age-verification application by the end of 2026. National rules in France and Italy emphasize double anonymity, preventing both websites and identity providers from learning unnecessary information about one another, whereas Germany accepts eID-based checks as equivalent to face-to-face verification. The text recommends combining low-friction age estimation with eID, wallet, or document checks for uncertain cases, retaining only age-group information and offering users a way to challenge decisions, and it presents Didit as a provider offering eID, biometric estimation, and document-verification tools for such workflows.
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