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Meta, TikTok, other platforms told to expect EU guidelines soon on child protection, age verification

By Matthew Newman and Frank Hersey
  • 16 May 2024 13:21
  • 16 May 2024 13:21
Meta Platforms, TikTok and other online platforms will soon receive guidelines under the EU Digital Services Act on child protection and age verification, a European Commission official said today. 
The EU regulator is working "hand in hand" with national governments to come up with an age-verification "solution" that will "leverage"

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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