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EU KIDS Act age verification rules pose challenges for Mastodon

Original: Age verification in the Fediverse: How the KIDS Act challenges Mastodon https://www. heise.de/en/background/Age-ver ific

A Heise Online background report examines how the EU's planned KIDS Act would require age verification on decentralized social networks, posing technical and organizational problems for Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. Discussion online is focusing on how age checks could be enforced across thousands of independently run servers, and what the rules would mean for privacy in Europe.

Why now: EU lawmakers are moving forward with the KIDS Act, raising fresh concerns about its impact on decentralized platforms and privacy.

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