Brussels13 and 15 become EU-wide legal ages.
The Act’s compliance cost falls on platforms, but its privacy cost falls on users.
Enforcing the floor across 27 countries requires age verification, meaning all 450 million users must prove their age.
National regulators must still decide how platforms will verify every user’s age.
How each outlet framed it
- The Record
- outlines tiered age-restriction framework: complete under-13 block, 13-15 parental 'mini-accounts' with 1-hour daily screen-time caps
Sources: The Record