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EU child online safety: DSA enforcement on age assurance and addictive design, delayed guidance, proposed Digital Fairness Act, and global standards drive under US political pressure

Published on: 22 April 2025

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For adults-only websites offering pornography, gambling or alcohol sales, the position is straightforward: children must be kept out and stringent age checks are mandatory. By contrast, duties for other services are still being defined and are now seeing first-time enforcement. Under Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, the EU Digital Services Act (EU DSA), providers of online platforms that children can access must implement ‘appropriate and proportionate measures to ensure a high level of privacy, safety, and security of minors’. This wide-ranging obligation is due to be clarified by forthcoming guidance, with the Commission—responsible for enforcing the EU DSA—setting out what compliance entails. Although publication had been scheduled for this week, MLex understands the draft guidance has been postponed, with no fresh date yet confirmed. Alongside requiring platforms to limit harmful content, the Commission is weighing new rules in an upcoming consumer law that strike at the heart of platform business models: addictive design and targeted advertising...

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