{"id":131281,"date":"2025-05-10T22:05:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T22:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/france-wants-to-impose-age-verification-at-european-level\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T22:06:00","slug":"france-wants-to-impose-age-verification-at-european-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/france-wants-to-impose-age-verification-at-european-level\/","title":{"rendered":"France wants to impose age verification at European level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\"><source srcset=\" https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2022\/03\/25\/0\/0\/5524\/3682\/556\/0\/75\/0\/4dabef4_1648181497433-000-8xc7vp.jpg 556w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2022\/03\/25\/0\/0\/5524\/3682\/600\/0\/75\/0\/4dabef4_1648181497433-000-8xc7vp.jpg 600w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2022\/03\/25\/0\/0\/5524\/3682\/664\/0\/75\/0\/4dabef4_1648181497433-000-8xc7vp.jpg 664w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2022\/03\/25\/0\/0\/5524\/3682\/700\/0\/75\/0\/4dabef4_1648181497433-000-8xc7vp.jpg 700w, https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2022\/03\/25\/0\/0\/5524\/3682\/800\/0\/75\/0\/4dabef4_1648181497433-000-8xc7vp.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 556px, 100vw\" alt=\"Illustration. Photo prise \u00e0 Londres, en d\u00e9cembre 2020.\" width=\"664\" height=\"443\"><\/source><\/picture> <noscript> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.lemde.fr\/2022\/03\/25\/0\/0\/5524\/3682\/664\/0\/75\/0\/4dabef4_1648181497433-000-8xc7vp.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration. Photo taken in London, in December 2020.\"\/> <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Illustration. Photo taken in London, in December 2020.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Justin Tallis \/ AFP<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">France is given <em>&#8220;Three months&#8221;<\/em> For <em>&#8220;Mobilize its European partners&#8221;<\/em> on one <em>&#8220;European Agreement&#8221;<\/em> Restraction of social networks to verify the age of adolescents using them, failing which the government will take sanctions, said the Minister Delegate in charge of Digital, Clara Chappaz, in <em>La Tribune on Sunday<\/em>. <em>&#8220;Social networks, before 15 years, is no&#8221;<\/em>insists the minister delegate in charge of digital in an interview with the weekly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">In June 2024, Emmanuel Macron spoke about the prohibition of the phone before the age of 11 and social networks before 15 years, after having received, two months earlier, expert work on the impact of the exhibition of young people to screens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \"><em>&#8220;On a European scale, we have <\/em>(\u2026)<em> A frame of reference action: the regulations on digital services<\/em> [Digital Services Act]<em> \u00bb\u00bb<\/em>continues the minister delegate in charge of digital, Clara Chappaz. <em>&#8220;But you have to go further to strengthen its scope, so that it forces social networks not to accept the creation of accounts without age verification&#8221;<\/em>she adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">The minister is <em>&#8220;Give three months to mobilize our European partners around a simple line: age verification as imperative&#8221;<\/em>. <em>&#8220;My job is today to rally a coalition, with Spain, Greece and now Ireland, to convince the European Commission&#8221;<\/em>she adds. She warns: <em>\u201cIf we cannot reach the start of the school year, France will take responsibility. In the absence of European agreement, it is in France that we will have to act \u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"catcher catcher--favoris\">\n<div class=\"catcher__content\"><span class=\"catcher__title catcher__title--hide\">Read also |<\/span><span class=\"catcher__desc\">  <span class=\"icon__premium\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span>    &#8220;France should legitimately be able to impose on the platforms to verify, by effective technical solutions, the age of the internet user&#8221; <\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <button class=\"lmd-btn-icon lmd-btn-icon--primary lmd-btn-icon--m js-lmd-dropdown-favorite-toggler\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-controls=\"lmd-dropdown-favorite\" aria-label=\"Lire plus tard\" data-article-id=\"3352147\" data-position=\"lire aussi\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/idees\/article\/2023\/12\/16\/la-france-devrait-legitimement-pouvoir-imposer-aux-plates-formes-de-verifier-par-des-solutions-techniques-efficaces-l-age-de-l-internaute_6206146_3232.html\" data-status=\"\"> <span class=\"icon__favorites\"\/> <span class=\"js-btn-icon-tooltip\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<h2 class=\"article__sub-title\">Potential sanctions<\/h2>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">To the question of whether the government could go so far as to take sanctions, it answers: <em>&#8220;Yes, as proof, look at what we have done on the pornographic sites. &#8220;Since the beginning of March, Arch<\/em> [le gendarme fran\u00e7ais du num\u00e9rique] <em>started to block sites that do not comply with French legislation. They must verify that Internet users are over 18 years old \u201d<\/em>said Clara Chappaz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \"><em>&#8220;If they <\/em>[les plateformes] <em>do not set up solid age verification solutions, they are sanctioned. 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Photo taken in London, in December 2020. Justin Tallis \/ AFP France is given &#8220;Three months&#8221; For &#8220;Mobilize its European partners&#8221; on one &#8220;European Agreement&#8221; Restraction of social networks to verify the age of adolescents using them, failing which the government will take sanctions, said the Minister Delegate in charge of Digital, Clara Chappaz, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1216,853,1309,18332,1044,29393],"class_list":["post-131281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-age","tag-european","tag-france","tag-impose","tag-level","tag-verification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}