EU Implements Stricter Age Verification and Safety Measures for Digital Services
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The EU plans to implement an age verification app that requires Android devices to be licensed by Google, raising concerns about increased dependency on US tech giants, privacy violations, and potential authoritarian control, with critics urging abandonment of the plan due to security, sovereignty, and privacy issues.
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