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PPPA-AGEVER-01-2020: “Outline and trial an infrastructure dedicated to the implementation of child rights and protection mechanisms in the online domain”

PPPA-AGEVER-01-2020: “Outline and trial an infrastructure dedicated to the implementation of child rights and protection mechanisms in the online domain”

John Carr

John Carr

John Carr OBE is the former Chair of the UK's Children’s Charities’ Coalition for Internet Safety and has agreed to chair this Board. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on children’s and young people’s use of the internet and associated new technologies, and a key figure in coordinating the activities of charities, academics and NGOs involved in online child protection across the EU and more widely.
Comments by Cecilia Alvarez Rigaudias, EMEA Privacy Policy Director, Facebook, at the euCONSENT conference in Athens, 9 September 2021

Comments by Cecilia Alvarez Rigaudias, EMEA Privacy Policy Director, Facebook, at the euCONSENT conference in Athens, 9 September 2021

“Verifying someone’s age is not as simple as it might sound. We have seen this, I think, in the contributions of all the other previous speakers.
It is generally acknowledged by policymakers, regulators and also, as we have seen, by researchers, at a global level, that age verification is a multifaceted issue for which, at present, there is not an agreed solution, which in itself speaks to the inherent challenges that are involved.
hese difficulties have been acknowledged by certain regulators in the European Union and the UK. They recognise that it is unlikely to be a one size fits all solution for all the”
Cecilia Alvarez Rigaudias, EMEA Privacy Policy Director, Facebook

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First meeting of the Advisory Board of euConsent

First meeting of the Advisory Board of euConsent

Hugely important – global significance

It is hard to overstate the impact this project could have on the way the internet is used not just in Europe but potentially around the world. Many honest efforts by Regulators to protect children online have found it difficult to solve several key challenges which are rooted in the transnational nature of the medium. One of the most obvious and pressing concerned age verification. The European Commission recognised a pan-European solution is required. They ran a competition to select a team to tackle the problem. euConsent was the result.

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