Age Verification in the European Union: The Commission’s Age Verification App

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This is the second part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In this blog post, we take a deep dive into the age verification app solicited by the European Commission, based on digital identities. Part one gives an overview of the political debate around age verification in the EU and part three explores measures to keep all users safe that do not require age checks. 

In  part one of this series on age verification in the European Union, we gave an overview of the state of the debate in the EU and introduced an age verification app, or mini-wallet, that the European Commission has commissioned. In this post, we will take a more detailed look at the app, how it will work and what some of its shortcomings are.

According to the original tender and the app’s recently published specifications, the Commission is soliciting the creation of a mobile application that will act as a digital wallet by storing a proof of age to enable users to verify their ages and access age-restricted content.

After downloading the app, a user would request proof of their age. For this crucial step, the Commission foresees users relying on a variety of age verification methods, including national eID schemes, physical ID cards (acknowledging that biometric analysis would be necessary for identifying a user corresponding to an ID), linking the app to another app that contains information about a user’s age, like a banking app, or age assessment through third parties like post offices. 

In the next step, the age verification app would generate a proof of age. Once the user would access a website restricting content for certain age cohorts, the platform would request proof of the user’s age through the app. The app would then present proof of the user’s age vi

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