European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen presented the EU Kids Act on 17 September.
The proposal tightens online child safety to improve youth physical and mental well-being. It sets a minimum EU-wide age to open social media accounts and bans accounts for children under 13. It stops profiling-based recommender feeds and addictive features and requires service providers to prove their services are “safe by design”.
The Act follows the Special Panel on child safety, which presented its report “Child safety online” in July 2026 and recommended restricting access to what it called “social…
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