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EU DSA draft guidance for consultation: platform duties for children’s safety, security and privacy; age assurance, recommender systems, AI risks and a template for children’s risk assessments

Published on: 04 April 2025

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Online platforms will see age assurance be in focus in the EU Digital Services Act guidance

A senior Commission official said today that the EU Digital Services Act guidance will put age assurance centre-stage for online platforms. Martin Harris Hess, head of the Commission’s protection of minors unit, told an event that a draft will be released for public consultation in the coming weeks and will lay out a broad set of recommendations for platforms. The breadth is warranted, he noted, because of the wide ‘variety and diversity of platforms’. He also explained that the current version, still subject to change, spans ‘over a dozen chapters’ and frames advice from the user’s point of view.

It is expected to address areas including platform governance, account creation and set-up, content moderation, recommender systems, generative AI and age verification. For every chapter there will be concrete, actionable steps the Commission would expect platforms to take, calibrated to the type of service they provide, he added...

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