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Apple chairman Tim Cook is backing the EU KIDS Act, which would bring app stores and operating systems into scope for age verification.

Age verification means identity verification. Under the KIDS Act, that check would happen at the device level, before anyone downloads an app.

Cook discussed the proposal with Ursula von der Leyen in New York. This week he told Roberta Metsola and MEPs that Apple was “very encouraged” by it. He also reportedly called Australia’s age verification rules “world-leading.”

The EU’s own age verification app was hacked in under two minutes in April, with scanned ID documents stored unencrypted.

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